Addictive Quotes - page 4

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive. (Tom Shales)
Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter. View quote
George Will
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me. View quote
Alec Baldwin
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. View quote
Matthew Stover
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. View quote
Maya Angelou
Addictive drugs misuse the brain's existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain's pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you. View quote
Richelle Mead
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar. (Mercedes Lackey)
Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product. View quote
Neil Cavuto
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them. View quote
Robbie Williams
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. View quote
Harvey Mackay
I find golf very relaxing.it's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive. View quote
Bill Gates
Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics... View quote
Bob Barr
This year I'm planning on hibernating from October until the Olympics next August. It's that important to me. It drives me. And it's very addictive. One of the cruellest things about the sport is that you're never fulfilled or completely happy with your performance. You're running against a clock so you always want to go faster and think that you can. That becomes an addiction. View quote
Jo Ankier
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive. (Anthony Hopkins)
That game, just the brutal simplicity. It's amazing as a game designer you want to have the latest graphics, and you want the Chicago Symphony playing your background music, and you want Harrison Ford and Matt Damon as your starring characters. But if you have an incredibly addictive game, you don't need any of that crap. You just need blocks. View quote
Eugene Jarvis
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. View quote
Dan Rather
I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes. View quote
Dan Rather
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do! View quote
John Travolta