John Dryden Quotes

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

People only speak to get something.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.

All men are liable to error; and most men, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

It's passion; if I'm not passionate about something I'm not going to do it.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.