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Quotes About Addictive

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.
~ Anne Tyler
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
~ Seth Godin
There was something irresistible about popcorn.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
~ Liam Cunningham
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
~ Graydon Carter
I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.
~ Georgina Chapman
We've been talking a lot about dependencies. Things you get dependent on ... Smack but also people. You get dependent on people. Like… emotional dependencies. Which are just as addictive. OK?
~ Mark Ravenhill
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
~ John W. Gardner
I'm not a big reality TV person, although recently someone got me into 90 Day Fiance,' which is pretty addictive.
~ Phoebe Dynevor
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
~ Jason Alexander
Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.
~ David Hepworth
There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'
~ Lena Headey
Day lets her imagination free with an urban adventure that is not only fast-paced, but also erotic and addictive. [on Eve of Darkness ]
~ Sasha White
what society dictates we consume cattle gathering around learning devices called television mouths opening wider while addictive morsels of consumerism are violently jammed into us and we lose more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily
~ Scott C. Holstad
Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.
~ Stephen King
Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant.
~ Stephen King
finally learned what love truly was. Addicting. Selfless. And entirely without bounds.
~ Bella Andre
Hip Hop is very addictive.
~ Too Short
I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
~ Olga Kurylenko
When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the moral panic of the moment: a 1993 'Wired' article titled 'The Dragon Ate My Homework' described university students losing themselves in these virtual worlds. Keep in mind: they were just words on a screen.
~ Robin Sloan
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.
~ Alec Baldwin
I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know how to cook, so I can easily make it. I just choose not to because you never stop! I think my favorite would be pollo guisado con arroz blanco y habichuelas. I love tostones, I love maduros! I can eat rice and beans all day long!
~ Justina Machado
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.
~ Maureen Johnson
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
~ Fiona Shaw