#obsess

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#flying #god #his #howard #howard hughes

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#brothers #dynamics #family #father #i

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #covering #event #generation #got

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it. ↗

— Molly Sims

#beginning #crazy #diet #done #every

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#been #nuts #obsessive #shakers

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it. ↗

— Candice Swanepoel

#brazil #fell #first #first time #going

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may