Quotes About Obsession

The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

I've probably listened to 'Try Me' by DeJ Loaf 500 times. It's a little slower than your typical strut BPM, but it still works.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

I've become a ukulele hoarder.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

I'm the ultimate beauty junkie - that inspiration, obsession, and addiction is one of the main reasons I founded Pat McGrath Labs in 2015. So, when fellow beauty junkies spot me, there's nothing I enjoy more than discovering what they're addicted to. It's so inspiring!

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up.

Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.