Obsessed Quotes - Page 12

• I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

  Thierry Henry

  Ideas, Paradise, Mark

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• We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

  Diane Ackerman

  Light, Sky, Way

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it 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

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

  Bill Griffith

  Light, Culture, Sides

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• I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

  Brett Dalton

  Kitchen, Nightmare, Knows

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• I'm obsessed with fresh breath.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Breaths

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• Perez Hilton is brilliant to me. Because he’s taken something that people don’t think is valid, don’t think is important, and he’s made them obsessed with it. People are obsessed with him. They’re obsessed with his site, they’re obsessed with what he does. They love him. They all love him. They love you, they hate you, what you don’t want is indifference. The day that I put a record out that nobody says a damn thing about, that’s bad.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Love You, Taken

  "Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame". Book by Emily Herbert, 2010.

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• I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Kids, Use, Hula

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• She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.

  Eminem

  Thinking, Rapper, World

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• I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

  Rachael Ray

  Running, Gun, Littles

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• Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Growing Up, Garlands, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  Peter Mullan

  Boss, Criminals, World

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially 'True Blood.' I'm obsessed with it. I got to meet the entire cast at Comic-Con and hang out with them. And that was awesome. I basically died and went to heaven.

  Nina Dobrev

  Blood, Heaven, Vampire

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• I'm obsessed with my children.

  Travis Barker

  Children, My Children

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• I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

  Paul O'Grady

  Children, Aunt, Tunes

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Obsession, Rich

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• I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

  Jessica Pare

  Beautiful, Depressing, Book

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• There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

  Beth Broderick

  Self, Hollywood, Becoming

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• A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

  Alan Ryan

  Book, Two, People

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Ideas, Order

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• If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Character, Obsession

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• I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

  Linda Evans

  Thinking, Hands, Years

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• I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

  Monique Coleman

  Yellow, Obsession, Headbands

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• It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Body, Obsession, Very Sad

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