Obsession Quotes - Page 10

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

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

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an 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.

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

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

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

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

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

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 was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.