#obsess

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it... ↗

— Zoë Heller

#obsession #love

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#eat #fish #general #i #i love

I was obsessed with being rich and famous. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#being rich #famous #i #obsessed #rich

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#beauty #because #course #everything #i

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#curves #get #i #look #more

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#human #human condition #life #lives #mine

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#architecture #gardening #hairdresser #i #i do

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #leadership #long #long term #obsessed