Obsession Quotes · Page 26

One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.

— Stacey Dooley

“The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.”

— John Jay Osborn Jr

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean…

— Novak Djokovic

“What's up with this sudden obsession with Jakes physique? He shoots me a look that asks: Is he measuring me for a…

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

Watching films is my obsession and I am lucky that my obsession became my profession.

— Manoj Kumar

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

— Pippa Middleton

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

— Joseph Bruce

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore

A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those…

— Peter Medawar

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move,…

— Dario Argento

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I…

— Johnny Depp

“Music is obsession. Like jumping in a river and getting swept away, too fast, too hard, hoping that you find an eddy…

— Fox Benwell

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments…

— Andre Gide

To see an obsession no more than habit born from fear and fatigue robs it from its fear inspiring quality, and with…

— Mayma

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and…

— Douglas McCulloh

“During all the time we were together, I don’t think I ever found out. But once I was with her, I didn’t…

— Gayle Forman

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.…

— Keith Richards

“I don’t understand.” Except, truthfully, I just didn’t want to understand. Pain shadowed across his face. “Darkness lives in me, Theia. Inside…

— Gwen Hayes

The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about…

— Wangechi Mutu

“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live,…

— Darrell Drake

“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way…

— Don DeLillo

What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along…

— Orhan Pamuk

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are…

— Steve Toltz

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is…

— Don Altman

Twitter is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary.

— Anonymous

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

— Jimenez Lai

“Avoid perfectionism. It often leads to decision-paralysis and excessive procrastination.”

— Izey Victoria Odiase

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is…

— John C. Reilly

We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“People who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession.”

— Gary Chapman

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a…

— Zosia Mamet

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is often hypocrisy in our obsession with language. Many people use the 'right' language but still see me as a cripple,…

— Liz Carr

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

— Sophie Calle

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from…

— Steven Morrissey

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want…

— Claude Monet

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete…

— Fabiola Gianotti