Best 453 quotes in «obsession quotes» category

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

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 really obsessed with the past.

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

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

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

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.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

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

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'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.

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

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

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

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

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

My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Success in life is about obsession

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.