Best 453 quotes in «obsession quotes» category

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

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

I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.

I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

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

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