Binge Quotes - Page 2

• I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.

  Barack Obama

  Hangover, Risk, Suffering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Numbers, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

  Kirstie Alley

  Birthday, Party, Pumpkin

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• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Lying, Future, Men

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• We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

  Jon Corzine

  Drinking, Community, Alcohol

  "Under age, under the influence" By Jean Weinberg, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2005.

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• You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

  Dave Eggers

  Hate, Feelings, Bags

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.113, Vintage

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• I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Paper, Dove, Holmes

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

  Demi Lovato

  People, Eating Disorder, Problem

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

  Lev Grossman

  Weekend, Espresso, Six

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• I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Were Pregnant, Pregnant

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• I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

  Jane Fonda

  Addiction, Doe, Able

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• We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Drinking, Naughty

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• Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

  Andy Behrman

  Successful, Illegal Activities, Shopping

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• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Zach Wamp

  Kids, Sick, Parent

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• For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

  Geneen Roth

  Opposites, Way, Bulimia

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• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  Kevin Spacey

  Silly, Giving, Dying

  "Kevin Spacey Speech Urges Broadcast Networks To Adopt Netflix Model At The Edinburgh Television Festival" by Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

  Russell Brand

  Funny, Kids, Comedy

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• Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

  Carnie Wilson

  Hands, Challenges, Goes On

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse.

  Triple H

  Wwe, Long, Cracks

  "WWF SmackDown!". Sport, January 29, 2010.

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• A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

  Alfred Kazin

  Death, Years, Dying

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• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Portraits, Driving

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• No, Simi. No food. (Astrid) ‘No, Simi. No food.’ You sound like akri. ‘Don’t eat that, Simi, you’ll cause an ecological disaster.’ What is an ecological disaster, that’s what I want to know? Akri says it’s me on hunger binge, but I don’t think that’s quite right, but that’s all he’ll say about it. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Sound, Want

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Giving Up, Wall, Mean

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