Being Addicted Quotes

#1. You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Catherine The Great

#2. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

#3. Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

Jen Lancaster

#4. Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

Daniel H. Hill

#5. Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin ... it's hard and its mean, but you just can't stop.

F.D. Crandall

#6. I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. I can't stop myself from reaching for the bottle that's under my seat. I've gone all night without a sip, but it's not about being addicted. It's about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway.

A.S. King

#8. This constant 'stay inside and let yourself be protected' mentality has gotten more people killed than all the accidental exposures in the world. It's like we're all addicted to being afraid.

Mira Grant

#9. Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

Steven Pinker

#10. But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

Sherman Alexie

#11. The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.

Mitch Lucker

#12. Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Jimi Hendrix

#13. It appeared painful to regrow a set of hands, but I can hardly blame her for dabbling in street magic. Anyone can see she's addicted to being whole.

Robert Paul Weston

#14. Maybe he had become addicted after all - addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm.

Victor Robert Lee

#15. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..

Colleen Hoover

#16. I wondered if I was more addicted to being sad than I was to bourbon or cocaine.

Christopher Rice

#17. It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

Virginia Hey

#18. When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

Marianne Faithfull

#19. I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

Joshua Mohr

#20. Don't get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

Robert Monroe

#21. Would you like a glass or are you still being obnoxious?

Krista Ritchie

#22. He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Zac Efron

#24. Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

Thucydides

#25. I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

Shakira

#26. But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#27. I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.

Harold Evans

#28. What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?

Maddy Malhotra

#29. I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Simone Elkeles

#30. I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

Marilyn Hacker

#31. We are addicted to being the way we are

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#32. Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

Henry Watson Fowler

#33. A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Jeff Bezos

#34. I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate.

Pattie Maes