Quotes of: Obsessive Keyword

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

Robert Kazinsky

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

I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now they've got me so I'm scared and shaky, like a little kid is of the dark. I want you men to help me. Won't you men help me?' 'We'll help you' - sai...

Tales of obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires

I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after all, or pasting them in scrapbooks. But packed-away virginities aside, the interesting — and da...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acti...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

Courageous

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.

The Front Porch Prophet

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Waiting is often the best part of the story," he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.

Blind Obsession

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...

Bared to You

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

Johnny Marr

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Seamus Heaney

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

I listen to everything - all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

Eve

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

Paddy Ashdown

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Lucian Freud

I didn’t realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

Anatomy of a Single Girl

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince