“Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad. — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.” — Heather McCollum Copy Share Image
I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession. — John Cale Copy Share Image
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley 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
There is often hypocrisy in our obsession with language. Many people use the 'right' language but still see me as a cripple,… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
