“The child exasperated Marianne with her endless obsession with possession. She seemed to have absorbed the national sense of aggrievement, as if… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad." "Meaning?" I said sharply. "Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that a person’s childhood fascination with some object could subtly influence every other decision made during his or her… — Steven Martin Copy Share Image
An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc.,… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is… — Don Altman Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, our obsession with celebrities isn't about them; it's about us and our needs. Many of us look at these people—who have… — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
My obsession with hip-hop has given me an addiction to trainers, which are very much a young person's game, and I am… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Im tired of waiting,..tired of wondering if you will love me the way I love you. Tired of thinking will I ever… — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get… — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do,… — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
As a result of my upbringing, I was interested in reconnecting with my family and making them proud. Therefore, this emotional connection… — Karen Bardsley Copy Share Image
“With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
