Secret Obsession Quotes

#1. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Morris Graves

#2. The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

Victor Hugo

#3. The Story of the Volcano, An Aztec Myth
Once upon a time there was a princess named Iztaccihuatl, more beautiful than any woman, and a handsome warrior Popocatepetl, who loved her. They were to be married, and all the kingdoms rejoiced...

Elise Forier Edie

#4. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV.

Jasmine Warga

#6. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

David Levithan

#8. My instinct is on target about Jenny, because she answers the phone with, "Is everything all right?"
"I've been abducted," I say.
"Aliens, I hope," she says. "We can make some money when you sell your story to the media.

Deb Caletti

#9. You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Helmut Jahn

#10. I don't judge the men and women who chat with me and reveal their secrets and perversions. How can I? My secret, my obsession, is worse than any of theirs.

Alessandra Torre

#11. ...the world is full of peculiar

Anna Quindlen

#12. If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Toni Morrison

#13. Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Jodi Picoult

#14. In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Bill Gates