Obsessed Quotes

• When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.

  

  William Gibson
  • Country
  • Imaginary
  • Asian

• Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.

  

  William Easterly
  • Country
  • Development
  • Students

• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Kid

• In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

  

  Saul Rubinek
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Obsessed

• Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Obsessed

• People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Fearless
  • Dreamer
  • Insecure

• People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • World
  • Poor

• I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • Dad
  • Church
  • Football

• We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Humans
  • Obsessed
  • Constellations

• A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Enough
  • Pride

• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • World
  • Artistic

• I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Scared
  • Obsessed
  • Flight

• You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Desire
  • Care

• The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Problem
  • Improvement
  • Obsessed

• The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Play
  • Church
  • Public

• It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Obsessed
  • Actresses

• Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Serious
  • Library
  • Greed

• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Mean
  • President
  • Agents

• I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

  

  Paul Rhys
  • Read
  • Obsessed
  • Dickens

• Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.” (Arianna to Evie)

  

  Kiersten White
  • Cute
  • Obsessed
  • Faerie

• I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed
  • Since

• I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • People
  • Obsessed

• A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christian
  • Passionate
  • Obsessed

• She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Worst

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