Quotes of Hooked - somelinesforyou

“ I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes. ”

- Dan Rather

“ Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. ”

- Dan Rather

“ America is addicted to wars of distraction. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted. ”

- Jackie Collins

“ I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'. ”

- Harrison Ford

“ Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. ”

- Jimi Hendrix

“ MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I'm not addicted to reading. I can quit as soon as I finish the next chapter. ”

- Unknown

“ There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. ”

- Judy Collins

“ The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ”

- Josh Billings

“ It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. ”

- Jean Cocteau

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

- Terence

“ Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. ”

- A. J. Liebling

“ It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. ”

- Dale Dauten

“ If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. ”

- Jack Black

“ I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as well. He enjoyed this part of me when we met. He was never threatened by it, by a woman who wanted a career. In fact, I think he prefers this, that I have a life as well… ”

- Susan Lucci

“ I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me… so he said I should try comedy… and I've been hooked ever since. ”

- Beatrice Arthur

“ A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway. ”

- Chris Van Allsburg

“ The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children. ”

- Midge Decter
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