Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Benjamin Hickey

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

It's a stressful job to be in. You're always looking for work, ... Once you're a superstar, if you started smoking when you were a struggling actor, it's very hard to quit. It's a highly addictive product.

Janet Reno

This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner, ... Not only did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human life.

It's addictive to go out and hunt deer, elk, antelope, turkey and bear.

David Robertson

This is the most addictive form of gambling that's even been invented. You've got a casino in your home now. You don't have to get in your car or go somewhere.

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

Kevin Bacon

There's an addictive quality to fame and when your celebrity starts to wane, people get a real fear about that, ... And that's why I think sometimes you see people who will put themselves on whatever real weird reality shows or they'll find themselves just back in the paper by doing something horrible. I almost get the feeling that it's better than not being in the paper.

Trip Adler

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

Marie Lu

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Athletes are driven personalities, completely focused as people pleasers, almost obsessive-compulsive. People who have addictive tendencies gravitate toward athletics.

Natalie Cole

I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

A couple of years ago, my husband started playing fantasy football, and I learned quickly how addictive it could be. I was into it, but I kept thinking, 'I don't follow the stats and I don't follow all the teams.' I joked I was going to start a fantasy fashion league for my friends.

Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan

So when you're dealing with one addict, you're dealing with 8 to 10 other people that get affected because of the addiction. We have to look at public policy, the government, the people who are leaders and rely on them to do better public policy when it comes to a very, very addictive product.

DeShawn Stevenson

Once you get one - and when you're told you can't get them growing up - it just makes you want them even more. Once you get one, they're pretty much addictive from that point.

This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,

Money can be as addictive as lots of other things -- drugs, sex, alcohol. There are truly money disorders.

Mary Karr

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Victoria Jackson

I have a very addictive personality and I'm very childlike, always wanting attention.

Richard Wagner

Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful.

Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they're not just gambling with money, their gambling with their lives.

Joel Fuhrman

Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

Joel Fuhrman

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

Joel Fuhrman

Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.

Robert Holden

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Allan Gurganus

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

Dave Gahan

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

Robert Scoble

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

John Landgraf

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about Nip/Tuck than any of our other series. It's clear that Ryan Murphy's unique vision for a show that is both addictive entertainment and a deeply penetrating critique of America's obsession with surface beauty has tapped into something very powerful.

Marcia Gay Harden

In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.

It encourages the use of a substance we think is harmful, ... It's a harmful, addictive substance.

Connor Franta

I like The Erised for the harmony of their addictive beats mix, and I like Allie X for her distinct style and incredible lyrics - they are pure art.