Top 89 Quotes About Junkies
#1. Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
Alan Kay
#2. Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.
Eddie Izzard
#3. He kept messing with her, trying to get her to sleep with him, but Eve had yet to do anything but tease him. In a world full of whores and junkies, not getting laid was a huge turn-on.
Debra Anastasia
#4. In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.
Ellen Goodman
#5. As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.
Bryant McGill
#6. In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
Diane Ackerman
#8. We're the propaganda monkeys.
The digital download junkies.
The skunk smoking geezers
With an inflatable Jesus.
We're the kitsch and cool.
Divide and rule.
Harry Whitewolf
#9. The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Phillip Adams
#10. I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.
Philip K. Dick
#11. Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
Scott Westerfeld
#13. It's an odd fact about lunatics and junkies, but every one I'd ever met is just dying to share their life wisdom.
Daniel Polansky
#14. There's no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore's are real.
Argus Hamilton
#15. People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
George Jung
#16. Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh
#17. Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
Al Gore
#18. Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I spit, turn, and wander towards the beach. Heroin gave me wings but took away the sky.
Drew Gates
#19. The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.
Al Lewis
#20. 'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
Alex Pareene
#21. Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.
Carolyn Hart
#22. The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.
Dave Marr
#23. Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!
Allen Ginsberg
#24. Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency ... Manna for political junkies ... Thoroughly researched ... humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.
Carlo Wolff
#26. But time changed. That was something only drunks and junkies understood. When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.
Stephen King
#27. Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Susan Sontag
#28. I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
Augusten Burroughs
#29. Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
William S. Burroughs
#30. The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks ... Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.
Tim Dorsey
#31. The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.
Frederick Lenz
#32. You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The rallying cry is If you can't dazzle 'em with genius, baffle 'em with bullshit.
James W. Blinn
#33. You might think you're a good liar, but you're not. I'm better at this than you are. Your professional lying days were limited to junkies and whores, but I routinely lie to Congress . . . Well, never mind. I suppose we're not that different after all.
Larry Correia
#35. We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
Sally Quinn
#36. Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.
Jerry Stahl
#37. Trannies dress up like women, then try to bang straight guys. They're the adrenaline junkies of gayness.
Dov Davidoff
#38. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
Jerry Stahl
#39. I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junkies 'the scum of the earth', I had now fallen by the wayside and had become a junkie myself!
Stephen Richards
#40. Across the board ... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?
Hunter S. Thompson
#41. Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.
Kevin McCloud
#42. In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES.
Omar EL KADMIRI
#43. The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.
Thelonious Monk
#44. We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.
Stewart Lee Allen
#45. Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
Robert MacNeil
#46. Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing ... rewarding immoral and illegal behavior ... For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.
Bill Maher
#47. I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.
Killer Mike
#48. The only thoroughly beat Negro scene is the Maracanda, where most of the clientele are junkies and Charlie Parker is the squarest thing on the jukebox.
Ned Polsky
#49. We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories ... it's no small achievement.
Iain Banks
#50. The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people.
Jonathan Maberry
#51. A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
Phoebe Snow
#52. Yeah, I know what "off the horse" means. I just can't remember how we got to the point where I'm defending myself against the imaginary accusations of a man who gives hairless rats to neighborhood children, and who apparently trusts the nonexistent squirrel junkies in the attic.
Jenny Lawson
#53. This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies - Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.
Skye Jethani
#54. During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
Leonard Orr
#55. I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.
Kristen Bell
#57. It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view.
Michael Nyqvist
#58. I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.
Rick James
#59. Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.
Russell Brand
#60. Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.
Dave McPherson
#61. Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.
Steve Erickson
#62. Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you that same dopamine and serotonin kick. Maybe heroes are just junkies.
Charlie Human
#63. Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
Crystal Woods
#64. I'm a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
Dora J. Arod
#65. The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#66. I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind.
Amanda Mosher
#67. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#68. I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#69. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.
Crystal Woods
#70. My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.
Dora J. Arod
#71. Won't you come with me she said, there's plenty of room in my iron bed. You're looking cold and tired and a little hmna. I know I'm not part of the life you had planned, but I think once your body feels my hand your mind will change and your heart will lose its pain.
Cowboy Junkies
#72. She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#73. It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
Irvine Welsh
#74. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
Crystal Woods
#75. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#76. Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#77. If I could bronze my love, it'd be worthy of a silver medal.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#78. A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.
Craig Ferguson
#79. If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#80. This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
Irvine Welsh
#81. I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#82. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#83. A sunset is the sun's fiery kiss to the night.
Crystal Woods
#84. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.
Dora J. Arod
#85. One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire.
Crystal Woods
#86. Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts
his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars
Allen Ginsberg
#87. Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.
Karen Quan
#88. I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik's artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that's all fake heart and no brain is what's commonly called a "politician," and must be destroyed.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#89. My love is pizza shaped. Won't you have a slice? It's circular, so there's enough to go around.
Dora J. Arod
