Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“The one thing I do know is that Miki is obsessed with me, maybe in his own fucked up way he loves… — Rochelle H. Ragnarok Copy Share Image
to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
Long-running scandal fuels targeted political media. It's the stuff of obsession, which is the basis of a passionate core audience. More obsession… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The Dark Tower is Roland’s obsession, his grail, his only reason for living when we meet him. We learn of how Marten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“It's hard to explain how an infatuation actually starts. It's a state so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to remember how it… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to the heightened awareness I get when there's a death consequence. My vision is sharper, and I'm more sensitive to… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and… — Mark Feuerstein Copy Share Image
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part… — Candice Bergen Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a day when we're less obsessed with stars and give due credit to everyone who is involved in… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal.… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I'd go to Starbucks and order a frappuccino and blueberry muffin and that was me for the day. Not only would I… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
The trainer I learned most from about the field of play was Van Gaal, even though he's the one I've had the… — Luis Enrique Copy Share Image
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
