Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we were younger we were all trying to score points. But as musicians all we wanted to do was to make something that sounded great, and we became obsessive about it.

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Charles Simic

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the 'Batman' TV show in the '60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn't get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn't understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling.

Hayley Kiyoko

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

Lady Gaga

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

Mark Cuban

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Alex Steffen

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Alex Tabarrok

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Carl Honore

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Bernard Goldberg

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

Cassandra Peterson

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

Conor McGregor

I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Conor McGregor

Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that - I'm obsessed with winning.

Elizabeth Hurley

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

Eli Broad

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Elias Canetti

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Eli Roth

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Bruce Springsteen

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Brad Pitt

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

Jamie Bell

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Kim Gordon

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Jordin Sparks

I'm a responsible soul. But anyone who has the chance to spend time with me can see I'm still 22 years old. I love talking about clothes and guys and shoes and makeup. Plus, I'm obsessed with anything Hello Kitty!

Kate Moss

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

Eduardo Galeano

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.