Quotes About Obsession

I've been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

'Insanity... I like it."

It's hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it's all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

I just love movies.

Why would Donald Trump, who prides himself on his good taste, fall in love with Donald Trump? I mean, who can explain these things? Obsessions by their very nature defy reason.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

L]ike DiMaggio putting daily flowers on Marilyn's grave, I find myself compulsively drifting past here every day in a vigil that only reinforces my unredeemability.

Everything carries side effects; thus, in this context, the critical side effect of love is craziness.

priority. Some overeat to become unattractive, some overstudy or overtrain so they have no free time, some pick one boy early and hang on to him for protection.

The French are obsessed with history, partly out of a genuine affinity for the past, partly from a desire to cling to lost glory.

Within the sphere of English fiction Heathcliff stands alone. Therefore, if we do not understand him, then it is highly probable we were never intended to do so, so that we should try to realize and accept the fact that there may be just one or two things yet left in heaven and earth not dreamt of by our philosophy.

She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's always creeping from her room.

I have found that the more a woman obsesses about her body, the less she lives in it.