Recovering Addict Quotes

#1. Nothing a recovering addict likes more than a tale of how bad it had been in the old days, and how low a fellow addict had sunk. Let the one-downsmanship begin.

Lev Grossman

#2. I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

John Mayer

#3. 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz

#4. Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again ...

Chelsea Cain

#5. Jesus. The taste of her-my memory was unforgivably inadequate. I feel like a recovering crack addict who just fell off the wagon and never wants to climb back on.

Emma Chase

#6. I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that I believe you think.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

Felix Guattari

#8. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

Brian Spellman

#9. I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#10. Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

Bindi Irwin

#11. Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well.

Peter L. Bergen

#12. My childhood wasn't easy. I buried myself in books. I guess I'm a recovering book addict.

Katherine Reay

#13. We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.

Mardy Grothe

#14. I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Russell Brand

#15. Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Douglas Rushkoff

#16. It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Stanislaw Ulam

#17. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Is your home a retreat from responsibility, or a place of movement and growth?

Henry Cloud

#19. Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Cynthia Ozick

#20. Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Tim Fargo