Obsessive Quotes

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

And being an obsessive man he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had!

A bird cannot love freely when caged.

I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.