#addict

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#athletes #based #competition #excitement #generated

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. ↗

— James Taylor

#becomes #boring #controls #filling #hours

We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it. ↗

— Michael Taylor

#come #depend #like #might #more

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. ↗

— Terence

#any #i #life #much #one thing

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#heroine #i #life #need #saved

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life-lessons #philosophy #thinking #thoughts #change

I'm addicted to creating and writing. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#creating #i #writing

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #i #language #main #obstacles

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#former #horrible #i #myself