Obsession Quotes · Page 21

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

— Norman Cousins

When love crosses limits. It becomes devotion and when devotion goes astray it becomes an obsession.

— Simpleman

I am all about the arts and whenever I go to New York, London or Sydney I check out the latest plays,…

— Shibani Dandekar

I couldn't get out of my mind how miserable I'd been at the end of 10-win seasons. I'd gone from passion to…

— Mack Brown

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

— Geoffrey Gray

“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe…

— Stacia Kane

“Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through…

— Emme Rollins

What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it,…

— Anne Heche

I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme…

— Jaume Cabre

My obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldnt even talk about it, and pushed me to a…

— Lana Del Rey

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh.…

— June Allyson

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it…

— Chris Hardwick

I always say it must not be an obsession to win the Champions League. It's a very important title and beautiful to…

— Manuel Pellegrini

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

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

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.…

— Kate Zambreno

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life…

— Sarah Vowell

Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,…

— Bradford Morrow

These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went…

— Woody Allen

On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one…

— Jeroen Brouwers

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

— Julianna Baggott

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a…

— Johnny Marr

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact…

— Nan Fairbrother

“It looks like you're mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus." Emily says.”

— Pet TorreS

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

— Cynthia Ozick

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge…

— Johnny Depp

“Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make”

— Karina Halle

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

— John Cale

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer…

— Arianna Huffington

“When you dare to obsess over the impossible, you ignite the power to remake possibility itself.”

— F.C. Quiles

To tell the truth, I have no idea what love is. I often think it is a makeshift name--a pretty, but false…

— Ginko

I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

— Becky G

“Some loves don’t heal you. They consume you until there’s nothing left but the echo of what you were.”

— Arden Frost

“The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

— Sybil Adelman

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last…

— Mukesh Ambani