#addict

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#addicted #climbing #environment #extraordinary #i

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 constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#constantly #depressive #having #i #tendency

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more. ↗

— Bam Margera

#after #airplane #any #basement #ever

I've triumphed over addiction. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #over #triumphed

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#autobiography #celebrity #drug addict #his #means

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs. ↗

— Judge Reinhold

#because #boys and girls #club #home #home life