Obsession Quotes

Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

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

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

I'm obsessed with books.

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

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

I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

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.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Determination could easily become obsession.

Obession makes everything possible

Mujer, you own my soul.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.