Children Quote by Steven Martin

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

“Like most things that were good or bad for you, you reach a stage where what started as a happy habit turns into something…

— Harlan Coben

“So many choices and so much stimuli rob them of time and attention. Too much stuff deprives kids of leisure, and the ability to…

— Lisa M. Ross

“Instead of being fascinated by the things around us, we now try so hard to fascinate others by the things on us.”

— Ika Natassa

“I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since…

— William Gibson

“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”

— Leah Raeder

“I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is…

— Pham Thi Hoai

“If there was obsession here—a dominant persistent desire—then it was the desire to lose ourselves in one another. The only problem is that one…

— Ella Frank

“The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected…

— Thomas Ligotti

“A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.”

— David Sedaris