Quotes About Fixation

He stared at her face as if he wanted to peel it off and take it home with him. What a gruesome thought, Rowan.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

Anurag was always too passionate about 'Raman Raghav 2.0' to care about anything else. There never was a 'Bombay Velvet' hangover.

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

Obsession comes from the latin verb that means to besiege.

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look.

Julie Seagle If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I've got you under my skin, or is it just my eczma again?

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

He was the corner that her eyes always strayed toward

A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

Wherever he was, whatever he was doing, he found himself suddenly accosted by some kind of synaesthetic fixation with the woman: hearing the colour of her hair in the mosque, smelling the touch of her hand on the tube, tasting her smile while innocently walking the streets on his way to work; and this in turn led to a knowledge of every public convenience in London, led to the kind of masturbation that even a fifteen-year-old boy living in Shetlands might find excessive.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I am really addicted to music.

No addiction is good.

I've got an addiction to this game. An addiction to being perfect.