#obsession

Mujer, you own my soul. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#obsession

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. ↗

— Émile Zola

#religious-faith #faith

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer. ↗

— Angel Haze

#desire #end #exist #find #form

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. ↗

— John Barton

#completely #end #happen #hard #hold

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. ↗

— Julie Brown

#crazy #i #i think #obsession #over

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

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

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

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker. ↗

— David Walliams

#baker #because #born #britain #got