Quotes About Obsession

I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far.

My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.

I have an obsession with ketchup! I have it with everything.

I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That's the level of obsession that I had.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my bedroom and pick up the guitar and play it. It became an obsession with me. That's all I wanted to do was play guitar and learn every lick I heard on the radio.

I have an obsession with describing hair. I don't know why - hair is just really pretty.

'Pompeii' is kind of a lifelong obsession for me.

I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!

I have an obsession with black, so I love Alexander Wang and Alexander McQueen.