Quotes About Obsession

Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.

Being on the inside could be an addiction

Sometimes Pupkin would swear off and keep away from the cursed thing for weeks, and then perhaps he'd see by sheer accident a pile of matches on the table, or a match lying on the floor and it would start the craze in him.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams!

He got a lovely pair of trainers given off his mum for Christmas, best pair he ever had, but it was the nylon laces that he couldn't take his eyes off. They found him hanging in his cell!

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

You are my life now.

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

If you're wondering if you're a collector, ask yourself two questions. Do I own too many records? Do my friends and family feel I own too many records? If your respective answers are No and Yes, you're a Collector.

Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.

They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one.

Obsession is a clever and insidious drug.

Then why don't I stop? My answer was different from Patrick's, because Patrick was a professional and I am a lunatic. Poet Charles Bukowski said it this way: "The difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing." I do this work because I can't help it; I have to do it. If that means I'm nuts, so be it.

This was his first murder and it fascinated him.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge.

If you're given a chance, and you're driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.