These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Obsessed is how the uninspired describe the dedicated, a poor excuse for doing nothing or being unhealthy! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I love Stone Cold. It's a weird obsession, and he should probably get a restraining order. — Paige Copy Share Image
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
It must be what I see in you I cant pry myself away from you Is it love or is it obsession?… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fourth… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“I may not know quite what you are, but I know what you are not… You are not the kind who leaves… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“My obsession with him had grown by leaps and bounds. He didn’t make any sense. Hell, nothing made any sense anymore.” — A.K. Morgen Copy Share Image
My parents used to give me a $20 allowance and I'd spend it all on McDonald's and 'Iron Man' comics. It was… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of… — Sundra Oakley Copy Share Image
To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm… — Eden Hazard Copy Share Image
The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“My obsession with pineapples nearly drove me mad. I dreamt of the days when I would be grown and able to buy… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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