Quotes About Obsession

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

I got a fascination with food.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

I don't think of you as a crush anymore...you're more like a bad habit that I can't shake.

It's crazy how when you're really into someone, you don't even notice anyone else.

I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Ideas can come anytime, anywhere, while I am making this gazpacho or going to the bathroom. I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

I expose myself to life, and from that, ideas come as a surprise. I totally dismiss the ones that are pleasant and easy. I'm only interested in the ones that really disturb me and that I get obsessed about. They're what bring me to new territory.