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Quotes About Fixation

People care about such bizarre and specific things about me.
~ Caroline Calloway
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
~ Bruce Lee
My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.
~ Joe Wicks
What's the deal? To him, straight lines appear to be moving, because his retinas are not yet fixed.
~ Tracy Hogg
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
~ Umberto Eco
Los detallistas son unos paranoicos en su primer estadio.
~ Umberto Eco
kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to
~ Val McDermid
Une idée fixe aboutit à la folie ou à l'héroïsme.
~ Victor Hugo
When I care about someone, I hang on with a desperation that borders on mental illness.
~ Kristin Hannah
age twenty-nine the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which in 1986 made the Republicans' antitax fixation official.
~ Kurt Andersen
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
~ la bruyere jean de iv
Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Les collectionneurs étaient des personnages mesquins, des gens qui vivaient dans l'obsession d'un contrôle qu'ils n'atteindraient jamais.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.
~ Jack London
She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him.
~ James Baldwin
I wear obsession well, I've turned it into something.
~ James Ellroy
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
~ Damon Galgut
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
~ Marina Abramovic
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
~ Charles Darwin
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
~ John Steinbeck
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
~ C. S. Lewis
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
~ E. B. White