Obsessive Quotes · Page 3

I wouldn't want someone attached to me! Obsessive people are annoying!

— Anonymous

My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.

— Mitski

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“As if he had simply stolen a piece of her heart and without him it refused to beat.”

— S. M. Yair-Levy

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

— Ben Miller

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

— Ezra Furman

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

— Alice Eve

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

— Gary Gulman

And I wasnt playing a role I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was…

— Anonymous

“At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world…

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like,…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way…

— Arianna Huffington

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame…

— Anne Hathaway

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession.…

— Nicolas Roeg

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any…

— Barbra Streisand

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at…

— Jonny Wilkinson

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of…

— Callum Keith Rennie

I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed…

— Elaine Paige

Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen…

— Roland Barthes

In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…

— Thomas Boswell

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do.…

— Ian Bogost

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing…

— Jonathan Lethem

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without…

— Charles Baudelaire

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get…

— Joan Chen

I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for…

— Nick Minchin

“Love is an indescribable, cumbersome, silly-selfish, consuming, life-changing, goosebump-making, knowing-all-the-words-to-the-song exciting, I-can't-think-straight-without-him overwhelming, sigh-swooning, laugh-out-loud-for-no-reason anxious, fun, rule-causing, jealousy-inducing, leg-kicking, dream-giving, wonderful,…

— YellowBella

I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!"…

— Lara Stone

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend…

— Mark Helprin

“Not that I was obsessive or anything. Au contraire, mon frere. For the record, I would like to point out that it…

— Jess Rothenberg

I'm obsessive, I'm a control freak, I get snappy with people.

— Neal Brennan

Obsessive people will obsess, the thing about resentment is you can only control your own.

— Anonymous

Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.

— Rachel Shelley

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

— Tom Ford

I'm an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.

— Ty Burrell

I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.

— Freddie Fox

“I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive).”

— Amy Croall

“I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.”

— Colleen McCarty