Obsessions Quotes · Page 2

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

— Jim Carrey

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

— Ian Fleming

You can't predict what people are going to like. You have to stay true to your enthusiasm and obsessions.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

— Mary Heilmann

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

— Francine Prose

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

— Robert Eggers

“We are living through an age of peculiar obsessions.”

— Jeremy Maddux

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

— Amy Wax

“Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.”

— Darcey Steinke

“His unconscious was rapidly becoming a well-stocked pantheon of tutelary phobias and obsessions, homing onto his already over-burdened psyche like lost telepaths.”

— J.G. Ballard

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

— Mary Ellen Mark

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's…

— Iris Murdoch

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close…

— Shannon L. Alder

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

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

— Sybil Adelman

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

— William Gibson

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

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,…

— Anne Rice

I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces,…

— Sophie Ristelhueber

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

— Georges Rodenbach

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need…

— Scott Turow

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,…

— Betsy Lerner

How many artists to pick as my obsessions? The four I listen to all the time are Phoebe Bridgers, A Tribe Called…

— Arlo Parks

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.”

— d.h. lawrence

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

— Wendy Carlos

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Pamela Stephenson

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

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

— Emile M. Cioran

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

— Amitava Kumar

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

— Andres Serrano

I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.

— Alda Merini

“because for some people facts were just minor irritants that got in the way of their obsessions. Got”

— Jo Nesbø

“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”

— Dick Francis

“Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.”

— Robert Lane Greene

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

— Steven Pinker

“Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.”

— Neil Smith

“Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.”

— Munia Khan

I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

— Kourtney Kardashian