Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

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.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

E. M. Forster

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Agatha Christie

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Alberto Giacometti

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Jeb Bush

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

Alaina Huffman

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Tom Petty

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

Bill O'Reilly

Sean Penn is a left-wing guy, ... He's been that way, his father was that way, he's always going to be that way. He goes down to New Orleans with his boat, he rescues some people, and he does some good. The right kills him, and his wife curses at the right - it's all just a whole big charade. It doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that the guy did actually rescue some people.

Julie Powell

She can curse right and she looks as though she's eaten French food before.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.

Armand Assante

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

Elizabeth Watson

Yes, scary. And people were telling them to 'just shut up,' and cursed at them.

Mike Davis

I can't say anything about that. But I will say I did not curse or say anything disrespectful.

Monique Roffey

I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

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.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Aeschylus

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Albert Einstein

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

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.

John Cridland

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

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Ben Rogers

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.