Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simic

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

Louis Garrel

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.

Benjamin Hoff

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Charles Krauthammer

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Don Cheadle

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

Dave Barry

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.

David Sylvian

I'm obsessed with books.

David Tennant

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Errol Morris

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Beverley Mitchell

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

Juan Vargas

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

A. S. Byatt

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

Brian De Palma

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Dionne Warwick

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

I always had an obsession with the digital music realm.

He has a great attitude. His obsession is definitely a benefit to him and to our program.

Ruth Rendell

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Helen Garner

Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.

Here, we've developed an obsession for the long ball, just because we can. Other countries don't have that luxury, so they play a 'purer' form of baseball.

James Hillman

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key.