Junkie Quotes - Page 7

• Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Addiction, Giving

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• We're news junkies in my house.

  Stephen King

  House, News

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• I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.

  Sebastian Bach

  Mtv, Watches

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• I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

  Sebastian Bach

  Tvs

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• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

  Alton Brown

  Problem, Frustrating, Procrastinator

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• My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.

  Robert Carlyle

  Artist, Wife, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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• I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Pilates, Quiet Person, Kind

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• I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

  Steve Irwin

  Apex Predators, Minutes, Crocodiles

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• For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Taken

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Two

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• Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

  Janet Fitch

  Reading, Honest, Praying

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• A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fun, Light, Way

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• Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

  Philip K. Dick

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

  Tony Abbott

  Stress, Exercise, Release

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things.

  Orlando Bloom

  Crazy, Jumping, Surfing

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• 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

  Children, Book, Reading

  "‘Mission: Impossible 4’ Villain Michael Nyqvist Talks New Movie, Memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Women, Citizens

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

  Joan Lunden

  Mean, News, Stills

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• I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

  Julia Barr

  Christian, Makeup, Looks

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• The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Waiting, Next, Bagpipes

  "Christopher Monckton and his support for subsidies to Scotland" by Angus McLeod, Sunday Mail, April 16, 1995.

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• I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

  M. F. K. Fisher

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• People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

  George Jung

  Growing Up, People, Thrill

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Motivating yourself, I think having big strong legs, that's pretty cool. Having a big VMOs [the teardrop-shaped muscle above your knee] is always nice. But, the thing is, when you see guys who are clearly gym junkies who only do bicep curls all day every day, and you see them walking down the street ...'Mate, what about the legs?'.

  Greg Rutherford

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

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• 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

  Giving, Comedian, Brain

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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