Quotes About Passion

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

God respects me when I work. He loves me when I sing. Tagore

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

You have to live with a painting as you do with a lover. It's that personal. You might want to change lovers. You might want to rearrange your paintings. That's the way it should be.

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more'" (E 3:13).

it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to you, the perfect flower to plant in that particular spot -- you are playing your invisible instrument.

It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.

Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.

The concentration of a baby is alive wonderment. It is to that kind of organic interest, or passion, and awareness that Toni [Packer] seems to be pointing: listening that is not rote or methodical in any way. The baby has no sense yet of self-image, of itself as an object—a person—who needs to be improved, and Toni will question any meditation practice that contributes to such a picture.

having a lover doesn't necessarily mean having someone to love".

deserves your best every day of your life.