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Quotes About Obsession

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.
~ Peter Hargreaves
I tell you, the Pokemon industry has bled me dry.
~ Alessandro Nivola
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
~ Ada Yonath
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'
~ Tig Notaro
I am the kind to sit in front of the telly for hours. In fact, my parents and I are addicted to food shows. We can watch them endlessly. People who have seen us like, this call us a crazy family.
~ Ayesha Takia
Reichert, David, Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
~ Robert Dugoni
A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
~ Robert E. Howard
Most important for our purposes here is that the [Jewish] obsession with learning and cultivating the intellect had no precise parallel in Christian Europe in the early medieval period.
~ Robert Eisen
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone.
~ Robert Frost
He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury.
~ Robert Galbraith
Nutters love murder.
~ Robert Galbraith
The man was half-insane . . . I saw then what living with something like this could do to you. The obsession had taken over his entire life.
~ Robert Galbraith
She now understood the potencial for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion
~ Robert Galbraith
acuérdate de que a los chiflados siempre les atraen los asesinatos y los casos de personas desaparecidas
~ Robert Galbraith
And he was her very first and it was obvious, you know . . . he knew what he was doing, so it was all that much more important to her. Mad in love, she was. Mad .
~ Robert Galbraith
she now understood the potential for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion.
~ Robert Galbraith
She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.
~ Robert Goolrick
She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He opened his heart with gladness.
~ Robert Goolrick
He wanted to slice her open and lie inside the warm blood of her body.
~ Robert Goolrick
You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever," Catherine wrote to Grimm in 1779. "It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.
~ Robert K. Massie
The code word for me will be....Bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K." – Dennis Rader
~ Robert Keller
A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.
~ Robert Laughlin
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
No ease for the boy at the keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail. Nothing! No oil for the eye, nothing to pour on those waters or flames. I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.
~ Robert Lowell