Obsession Quotes
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It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. (Quote by - Jean Racine)
I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager, (Quote by - Dave Grohl)
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
That was his goal, to get with her. They were just obsessed with having him there when the baby is born. (Quote by - Judy Hayles)
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. (Quote by - Arianna Stassinopoulos)
love is like Someone is camping in your head (Quote by - Helen Fisher)
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession. (Quote by - Brooks Robinson)
I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous. (Quote by - Mia Farrow)
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. (Quote by - Robert Bly)
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. (Quote by - Jean Racine)
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. (Quote by - Wes Anderson)
I became obsessed with scoring goals. I scored a lot of goals last year just using my speed to get behind the defense. Now I feel I can score in a lot of different ways. (Quote by - Calen Carr)
Obsessions turn people off. (Quote by - Grover Norquist)
Our detractors are so obsessed with unseating President Arroyo that they refuse to accept that we have indeed made significant headway. (Quote by - Ignacio Bunye)
Most members are obsessed with everything Japanese. While only two members speak fluent Japanese, many are taking classes or simply interested in the culture. (Quote by - Tyler Smith)
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. (Quote by - Mary Ellen Mark)
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. (Quote by - Christopher Guest)
It is better to be redundant than remiss. (Quote by - Rain Bojangles)
Politics is not my domain. Charity, and charity alone, is my obsession. (Quote by - Sister Consuelo Murphy)
I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it. (Quote by - Courteney Cox)
It's not like my top priority. It's not an obsession. (Quote by - Kale Liechty)
I always had an obsession with the digital music realm. (Quote by - Chris Garrett)
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)
It is not the story of Elizabeth Short. The movie is complicated. It's about characters who are impacted and obsessed with what happened to her. (Quote by - Brian De Palma)
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. (Quote by - Fiona Shaw)
He obsessed about it ... he believed that it was true. (Quote by - John Bradford)
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. (Quote by - Peggy Noonan)
For the truly obsessive, they can get the original Poe. I amplify it. I think it's more understandable. (Quote by - Lou Reed)
As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. (Quote by - David Blaine)
Andy Warhol was obsessed with the image of celebrities being visual icons. The position of the gun is bold, menacing, and beautiful. Elvis is almost like a Greek figure. (Quote by - Francesco Bonami)
Do not make Recession your Obsession, Just remember to forget it and you'll be OK (Quote by - Mina Tadros)
The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all. (Quote by - Rain Bojangles)
I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw. (Quote by - Nick Love)
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief (Quote by - Buddha)
Obsession is a medicinal poison. (Quote by - Christopher Molineux)
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else. (Quote by - Philip Seymour Hoffman)
I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it. (Quote by - Christy Turlington)
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. (Quote by - John Irving)
For days I've been obsessed with this Katrina thing. (Quote by - Patricia Arquette)
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? (Quote by - Abdul Kalam)
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. (Quote by - Dustin Hoffman)
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. (Quote by - Eugene O'Neill)
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
It's just an obsession with deposing Gloria. (Quote by - Alex Magno)
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I think there's an over-obsession with monthly numbers. We've now had two years in a row with over 2 million jobs added, and it looks like we're headed for a third year. (Quote by - Paul Reilly)
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. (Quote by - Jim Dine)
With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed. (Quote by - Dirk Benedict)
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
I feel like a dork, because it feels a bit obsessive. I am never going to be selling this certificate. (Quote by - Lily Chang)
It is always an honour to play for India. Cricket is a national obsession and I share that and playing is even better. (Quote by - Dinesh Mongia)
The Mexican market remains obsessed with the extent of the U.S. economy's slowdown, (Quote by - Alberto Sanchez)
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with. (Quote by - Beverly Mitchell)
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. (Quote by - Kelly Clarkson)
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. (Quote by - Claude Monet)
As high-tech obsessed as I am, I still use calling cards when traveling because they are typically one of the least expensive ways to call home. (Quote by - David Rowell)
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obsessed by Making. (Quote by - E. E. Cummings)
I think sometimes she overdoes it. She obsessively wants to do a few jumps. (Quote by - Joanne McLeod)
obsession with being first with the obvious. (Quote by - Ted Koppel)
We're obsessed with the way Kate looks - Wellington boots with shorts? Who else could get away with that? (Quote by - Rachel Zoe)
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. (Quote by - Claude M. Bristol)
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. (Quote by - Patricia Clarkson)
To me, it's almost a geological formation. It was very much a landscape, not just an obsessive collection of junk like you see in some of these places. (Quote by - Larry Harris)
I was obsessed with him. I wouldn't leave his side for a second. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming. (Quote by - Peter Medawar)
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
The obsession with this one individual at the expense of 11 million others is, in my view, wrong, (Quote by - Chris Dodd)
They're among the most obsessive in detail. It goes far beyond what you see even in his most accomplished works. You really see in this sense an outpouring of that grief, if not an attempt to alleviate it or escape from it. (Quote by - Paul D'Ambrosio)
It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout. (Quote by - Jack Ablin)
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long. (Quote by - John Leonard)
In their obsession with turning comedy into a branc of left wing politics, they forgot that the only point of comedy is to make people laugh. (Quote by - Bernard Manning)
I don't think I'm an obsessive dieter, but I do maintain good eating habits that are as much as part of me as brushing my teeth in the morning. (Quote by - Raquel Darrian)
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
bemused by her obsession. (Quote by - Jack the Ripper)
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. (Quote by - Dave Navarro)
It had to be someone who knew they could never display them or sell them, but was obsessed with owning them. (Quote by - Michael Shaw)
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. (Quote by - Dave Matthews)
Obsession fulfills passion's choice of destiny. (Quote by - Daniel Waldschmidt)
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. (Quote by - Carlos Castaneda)
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. (Quote by - Tori Amos)
Make it as easy as possible to become obsessive about hand washing. (Quote by - William Stanhope)
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. (Quote by - Ugo Betti)
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. (Quote by - Cary Cooper)
A lot of the cable channels seemed obsessed with the looting. They'd say the blacks are looting, and the whites found some bread. Those kinds of things really strike a chord with African Americans. (Quote by - George Curry)
Historically, Asian women have always been obsessed with wanting lily-white skin, which is associated with being of a higher class, as opposed to those who had to work in the field, (Quote by - Christine Lee)
I came by on my skateboard, and I met him, doing what he does now. I became obsessed with him and I started coming here every night. (Quote by - Michael Santos)
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America. (Quote by - Cameron Crowe)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them, (Quote by - Liev Schreiber)
I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film. (Quote by - Cillian Murphy)
Collecting, apparently, is a lifelong obsession. (Quote by - Miyeko Murase)
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (Quote by - John Updike)
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it. (Quote by - Curtis Judalet)
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now. (Quote by - Walter Kirn)
