#bse

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. ↗

— George Sand

#indestructible #obsession #trade #violent

I'm obsessively detail-oriented. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#obsessively

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #devour #eating #embrace #expect

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#father #hero #me

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#course #got #i #into #obsessed

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#bad #bad day #day #days #good

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#forces #material #nothing #observe #shapes

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#actually #between #care #expense #get

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#childhood #constructed #contact #continue #control

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#basic #became #biology #cells #class