Quotes About Obsession

For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old.

All good research—whether for science or for a book—is a form of obsession.

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit

Still, it haunted me.

Quien no haya experimentado la seducción que la ciencia ejerce sobre una persona, jamás comprenderá su tiranía.

I have but one passion ; it swallows up every other ; it dwells with my darling books, and is fed by the treasures of beauty and wisdom which they contain.

For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

pursued him; and for many months this has been my task.

Na verdade, quando busco as origens da minha obsessão, que veio depois a reger o meu destino, descubro que ela brotou, como um rio na montanha, de um fio de água remoto e quase esquecido, que foi-se avolumando pouco a pouco, até converter-se na torrente que arrastou em seu curso todas as minhas esperanças e alegrias.

For far too long we have underestimated the power of spontaneous, organic and constructive change driven from below, in our obsession with designing change from above. Embrace the general theory of evolution. Admit that everything evolves.

The obsession with which those on the right resist Charles Darwin's insight – that the complexity of nature does not imply a designer – matches the obsession with which those on the left resist Adam Smith's insight – that the complexity of society does not imply a planner.

giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like

Obsession of a strong-hearted woman, Mr. Dolby, can be more dangerous than ten men.

What begins as taste becomes religion

Je l'avais aimée éperdument ! Pourquoi aime-t-on ? Est-ce bizarre de ne plus voir dans le monde qu'un être, de n'avoir plus dans l'esprit qu'une pensée, dans le coeur qu'un désir, et dans la bouche qu'un nom : un nom qui monte incessament, qui monte, comme l'eau d'une source, des profondeurs de l'âme, qui monte aux lèvres, et qu'on dit, qu'on redit, qu'on murmure sans cesse, partout, ainsi qu'une prière.

Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, I'm going in! I'm going in! like a manic cave diver.

He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes. Isn't that stalking? Jazza said. Legally, no, I replied. I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

People can't help but fill it. It's human nature, and it's what sinks a lot of murderers. This was something Stevie knew from her compulsive viewing of interrogations on YouTube.

When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.

No," said Toohey. "You ask what he'd do if he couldn't be an architect." "He'd walk over corpses. Any and all of them. All of us. But he'd be an architect.

that is the psychology of a murderer who's committed the perfect crime and then confesses because he can't bear the idea that nobody knows it's a perfect crime.

Lolita diventa il prodotto del sogno di qualcun altro.

What I had madly possessed," he informs us, "was not she, but my own creation, another fanciful Lolita—perhaps, more real than Lolita . . . having no will, no consciousness—indeed no real life of her own.

At some point, the truth of Iran's past became as immaterial to those who appropriated it as the truth of Lolita's is to Humbert. It became immaterial in the same way that Lolita's truth, her desires and life, must lose color before Humbert's one obsession, his desire to turn a twelve-year-old unruly child into his mistress.