Obsession Quotes - Page 8

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I'm obsessed with books.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The microscopic world became my obsession.

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

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

There's another little vision in my life, going into a restaurant in New York years ago: All the women are sitting in their little strapless dresses with their cleavage, and there's this one woman in a sleeveless turtleneck and pants. And I can tell you that every man in that restaurant looked at that woman's arms. It was hypnotizing when everything was covered up. Just the face, the conversation - and you see the arms. And the arms and the hands become an obsession. I like that.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.