“Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.” WritingPassionComplexesObsessionMy PassionAgonizing Author:Julianna Baggott
“The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.” LongRealMomentsProblemCultureTermIndustryProfitBritishObsessionRecoveryLong TermTradingShort TermReal Problems Author:Vince Cable
“I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.” StillsPrinciplesWeekFootballPagesObsessionMagazinesSitcom Author:Alan Davies
“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.” PeopleWorldLosesAwarenessNotionObsessionObsessedEarnest Author:Christopher Guest
“I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.” KnowsWritingEndsHappensThreeTechnologyNovelHellMinesObsessionCatholicismVow Author:Richard Dooling
“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?” ShouldHoursHalfWonderMillionsQuietSavedObsessionSavingDevicesHalf HoursFetish Author:Mark Feuerstein
“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.” KindSelfStuffPerfectionHollywoodObsessionOur SocietyNeurosisLoathingSelf Loathing Author:Ethan Hawke
“Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.” MatterDeterminationObsession Author:Jeremy Irvine
“The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.” ChildrenMotherStrongObsessionVery StrongKoreanMother's LoveBorderlineLove For Her Author:Bong Joon-ho
“I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.” WorldSaidDreamInspirationEffectsPlanetsObsessionAmerican DreamRequiemRequiem For A Dream Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.
“I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.” ObsessionLegendsUrbanLifelongFolkloreUrban Legends Author:Eric Kripke