Quotes About Obsession

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Somehow, he'd snaked into her head and sunk his fangs into her brain, poisoning her with hope. A cruel trick.

I wanted to drown in your fucking bathwater

I'm your air, Jenna. Me. I know where you live.' He pushed her in the chest with his index finger, hard, just over her heart. She stumbled backward.

Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we'd be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart.

It was 1984. That year, my true love was John Taylor from Duran Duran.

A search. We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

an aggressively encouraged obsessive-compulsive

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's non-stop.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and... he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop.

The movie I've seen the most is 'Ghostbusters' or 'Ghostbusters II.' I used to watch those movies nonstop.

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

I won't say if nerd is the right term, but I'm a big, big cricket fanatic. I just cannot stop thinking, talking cricket. I do carry notebooks and make notes to look at improving and developing my own game.

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.