Obsessed Quotes

• That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Causes

• Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Art
  • Generosity
  • Average

• When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • School
  • Today
  • Company

• We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Cases
  • Cost
  • Radical

• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Poverty

• I’m obsessed by nature, I’m obsessed by the British countryside and I’m obsessed by the National Trust. Nature, Architecture and beauty all rolled into one.

  

  George Clarke
  • Nature
  • Architecture
  • Obsessed

• I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Film

• I love Amy Winehouse. I'm obsessed with her, I think she's brilliant. And Ed Sheeran is just my all-time fave.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Think
  • Winehouse
  • Sheeran

• If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

  

  George Foreman
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Weighing

• You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Fake
  • Drink
  • Expatriates

• I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Feels
  • Sound
  • Nostalgic

• A friend of yours has, I think, a huge collection of sock monkeys. I'd love to show those. When I go to people's homes and I see the little things they're obsessed with, I wonder why no one has ever exhibited them.

  

  Andy Spade
  • People
  • Things
  • Obsessed

• A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Character
  • Joy

• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Country
  • War
  • Mean

• Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

  

  Melissa Benoist
  • Thinking
  • Couple
  • Modern

• I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Thinking
  • Terrible
  • Righteous

• Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

  

  Toby Stephens
  • Knows
  • Actors
  • Persons

• I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Computer
  • Software
  • Electronics

• Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Practice
  • Guys
  • Biceps

• I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost. No, we will not do it at any cost. We will do it in a way that ensures maximum benefit for the Russian state and the Russian economy.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Economy
  • Benefits
  • Cost

• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

  

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Artists
  • Obsessed

• A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

  

  George Gilder
  • Culture
  • Evil
  • Doe

• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Pleasure
  • Test
  • Futility

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