To see an obsession no more than habit born from fear and fatigue robs it from its fear inspiring quality, and with… — Mayma Copy Share Image
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Music is obsession. Like jumping in a river and getting swept away, too fast, too hard, hoping that you find an eddy… — Fox Benwell Copy Share Image
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“...if you are names without a nature, it's not because I don't remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
“It was an obsession, it was a compulsion. "The way to banish temptation is to give into it," the saying went. Maybe… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated.… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie.… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think our cinema has stayed in its adolescent stage largely because of our obsession with and our dependence upon stars to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns,… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession.… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we can change the nature of what's appealing in women so that all this nonsense about how we… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I think the Donald Trump's obsession is, is bigger than just polling. I mean it's funny because we've been harping on polls… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
