#obsess

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

— Norman Cousins

#dreams #expense #fears #insecure #more

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#american #discussion #general #going #ideas

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#kill #obsessions #sexual #their #trouble

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

Without obsession, life is nothing. ↗

— John Waters

#nothing #obsession #without

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#become #clouds #falling #grabbing #like

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#culture #degree #developed #disney #empire

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. ↗

— Lanford Wilson

#atom #atom bomb #been #bomb #ever

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#dolly #dolly parton #girl #her #i