Obsessionalities Quotes

#1. The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Will Self

#2. Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Jeane Dixon

#3. Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

Gayle Forman

#4. The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.

John Piper

#5. Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Jane Elliot

#6. Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

Billy Graham

#7. Sarcasm is a shaving cream pie waiting at the bottom of a guillotine's basket.

Dan Adams

#8. Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

Plutarch

#9. In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#10. Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Romesh Gunesekera

#11. If the last thing a man has to hold on to is his sense of pride and accompanying dignity, then more likely than not he will expend every last trace of energy doing so.

Dinaw Mengestu

#12. I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

Sue Miller

#13. The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Carl Jung

#14. said "let's send that fuckin' Flowers up there. He hasn't done anything for us lately."
"He's off today," somebody said.
Davenport said, "So what?

John Sandford

#15. As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

Lady Gaga