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Tag Name "Compulsively" (25)

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I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.
Travis Walton
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. Burroughs
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I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
Andrew Sullivan
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I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.
Baruch Halpern
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.
Debby Applegate
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When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.
Edward Norton
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Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
Glen Duncan
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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Jane Hamilton
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I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
Jules Feiffer
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
Molly Harper
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If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.
Pierre Dukan
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I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
Wang Jianlin
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
Zach Gilford
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
Anthony Storr
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My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.
Chelsea Handler
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I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
Demi Lovato
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
Garry Winogrand
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If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, Okay, it has a lot of taste, and continuing to chew it.
Jaco Van Dormael
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The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Jon Landau
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I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.
Maria Semple
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Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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