Junkies Quotes

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America`s ever had.

We`re newspaper junkies; I can`t imagine life without a newspaper.

We presume that people are pop culture junkies,

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

(Like the mighty Wall Street Journal`s WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it`s a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they`re Racing Form readers.) The average person bets $125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets $500.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they`re never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they`re about as much good as friends.