Quotes About Obsession

Jakob Mendel] leggeva come altri pregano, come i giocatori giocano e gli ubriachi tengono lo sguardo fisso nel vuoto storditi.

En toda la noche no pude pensar sino en ti, aun antes de conocerte. Yo sólo tenía una docena de libros baratos, encuadernados con cartones rotos, y los quería más que a nada en el mundo, los leía una y otra vez. Y ahora me asediaba la pregunta de cómo sería el hombre que poseía y había leído tantos y tan maravillosos libros.

A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.

I could do it… I've seen every last episode of Forensics Files." Me, too! But I've never considered it a tutorial. The

Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

Ever since I saw you in that hallway, I've been completely fixated on getting you naked. Inappropriate as hell, but I can't fucking help it.

There were two things Chris knew well: his rifle and a woman's body. With either, he could spend hours studying their intracacies, their individual quirks and hots spots...their flaws. He knew when one of them was going to jam up and let him down or to give him the shot of his life. Rifles and women - he loved them both, but not necessarily in that order.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

Addiction by any other name is love.

You have to be an artist and a madman...

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me

There was a time when I could put the palm of my hand flat on the front of a tattered paperback called The Dying Earth and feel the magic seeping through the cardboard: Turjan of Miir, Liane the Wayfarer, T'sais, Chun the Unavoidable. Nobody I knew had so much as heard of that book, but I knew it was the finest book in the world. (Castle of Days, 211)

She was a junkie for the printed word. And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.

A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand—

Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.