Quotes About Obsession

think there was a part of her that was attracted to people who kill.' 'She admired them?

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness,' says Antonio in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it's accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.

I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing so, I had ended up like a book: on the shelf.

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

I am a bit of a psycho when it comes to food.

I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

If I didn't work at ESPN, which I didn't until 2014, I would still be watching a psychotic amount of football for someone that doesn't do this for a living. I hope that never changes.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.

Because of social media, we're so fixated on our appearances.