Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Rae Jepsen

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Regina Spektor

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

Steven Pinker

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Mike Leigh

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

Juliana Hatfield

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Joan D. Vinge

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Liz Miller

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Larry Brown

I didn't curse him. I hadn't talked to him the whole game. Obviously he thought I went over the line and that's his prerogative. Those things happen. It's the first game I got kicked out.

Bill Miller

He yelled and cursed at me out of the dugout. I ejected him. That's it.

Paul Wolfowitz

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.

Ron Artest

I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out. That's going to be a lot of fun.

Charles King

In a way, a high profile can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing.

Steve DeLuca

I'm going to miss being cursed at in 12 different languages.

Alwi Shihab

The first 10 days we were cursed for being sluggish. If the government satisfies half the people, the other half will complain. And this one half will be heard by the world.

Mike Flanagan

You want to see the mood of this town change. People will dog curse you on the street. I mean, we just have to get this right.

Casey Neistat

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Julian Schnabel

My compulsion is to create things.

Rajnath Singh

Sonia Gandhi had to resign under compulsion and it was not a sacrifice on her part. Congress is trying to project Sonia as St Sonia.

John Egan

This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What's the rush? Just give her a chance. Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

John Cridland

The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will.

Alan Alda

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.