Obsessive Quotes

188 quotes by 175 authors

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me… — Kristen Stewart
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. — Barbra Streisand
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver. — Murray Walker
As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was… — Emma Watson
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. — Rob Zombie
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so… — Callum Keith Rennie
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is… — Anne Lamott
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get… — David Foster Wallace
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions… — Sam Savage
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
Iâ€™m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There arenâ€™t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in… — Alex Garland
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag

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