I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact… — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
When you're first in love with somebody, and it's not true love, it's borderline obsession, it's kind of like an addiction. You… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“EFFERVESCE AND OBSESSION Under the influence of this sensational climax I am reminded of the inundated calm before the storm as I… — Luccini Shurod Copy Share Image
“The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
There is an obsession with black tragedy. If you see a black movie, it's typically historical, and it tends to deal with… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I think the point of obsession with food means we're healthy as a species. When we're hungry, everything tastes good, hunger is… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame.… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
“... it’s you. You with that bloody obsession, that love of other that runs like a seam of gold through you. That… — Jae T. Jaggart Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
“Obsession is an addiction you may never shake free of. It just… holds you and never gives anything in return. But love,… — Bruce Jenvey Copy Share Image
“Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter,… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I feel like hair is the number one thing that makes me feel beautiful or not. If I have really bad hair,… — Amber Stevens Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
My mum was obsessed with dress... so, in my house, there was always the obsession about aesthetics. She was obsessed with the… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
