Obsession Quotes · Page 24

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

— Joely Fisher

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

— Pamela Stephenson

A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on…

— Fumiko Enchi

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

— Jacqueline Bisset

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and…

— Leon Wieseltier

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

— Bruce Springsteen

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

— Darcey Bussell

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable…

— Paul Theroux

“The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills…

— Georges Rodenbach

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly.…

— Louis Garrel

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and…

— Michael Caine

I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession…

— Natsuo Kirino

Sometimes you make me think you care. But those times can really be rare. I continuously over think. My thoughts make my…

— Tara

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and…

— Isabel Allende

The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is…

— Lucia Puenzo

I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people…

— Storm Constantine

“I don’t want to say it, I truly don’t, but if you’ve gone this far I suppose it’s obvious that what was…

— Scott Spencer

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence…

— Julio Cortazar

She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and…

— Paolo Giordano

In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,…

— Dean Kamen

My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten…

— Joyce Tenneson

I remember Shammi Kapoor for his great sense of music. If he loved a song, he would go to any speaks of…

— Saira Banu

“It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with…

— Emil Cioran

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young…

— Anthony Joshua

“Hadn't someone once said love was attention? No more, no less. There was attention, and there was obsession, and there was possession.”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

To grow a beautiful garden of affection, It needs timely de-weeding of apprehension and a sturdy fence against obsession!

— Supritha S

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and…

— W. Clement Stone

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say , fall head over heels.

— William Parrish

Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is surrendering any obsessive attachment to particular people, outcomes and situations.

— Melchor Lim

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how…

— Rachel Zoe

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

— Emile M. Cioran

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

— Vernon Howard

“He smirked. “Decision time, pretty lady... back to reality?” She touched his cheek. “Or down the rabbit hole?”

— Jake Vander-Ark

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight…

— Eric Clapton

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

— Nalini Singh

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that…

— Farley Mowat

“The current phone obsession is a disease,” Chance said. “Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.”

— Kathy Reichs