Obsessive Quotes - page 5

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation. (Steven Pinker)
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. View quote
Donna Tartt
though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. View quote
Donna Tartt
The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough. View quote
Camille Paglia
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future. View quote
Will Self
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
An obsessive creature, constantly dominated by one kind of motive, would not survive. View quote
Mary Midgley
As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families. (Karl Shapiro)
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. View quote
Rob Zombie
I become kind of obsessive about research. View quote
James Franco
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection. View quote
David Foster Wallace
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. View quote
Tom Ford
I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing. View quote
Trinny Woodall
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. View quote
Hanif Kureishi
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. View quote
David Byrne
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Charlie really has this, like, obsessive death wish! View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. (Mos Def)
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. View quote
Robert Plant
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver. View quote
Murray Walker
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. View quote
Daniel Craig
I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old! View quote
Daniel Craig