Quotes About Fixation

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Film lovers are sick people.

I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.

I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

I tried to avoid looking at the skull, but somehow I wanted to keep checking that it was still there. It's like when you have a sore in your mouth or tooth ache – your tongue keeps going back to check it still hurts.

Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong

Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession." Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England!

quando hanno nel cuore uno scapestrato (ed è lì che inclinano sempre), non se lo staccan più.

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

I have a problem with trailers, because I love them too much. I'm one of those nerds that watches them on repeat.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Collection is an addiction.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.