Quotes About Passion

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

The first success of life is we find that life should live in what cause.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I say love, it knows no season. It haunts the soul eternally.

Nick Rhodes (musician): My parents would often watch Top of the Pops with me, as they were quite turned on by knowing what was going on in the charts, and I remember they actually liked Bowie. They liked him so much they took me to see him when he played the Empire Pool in Wembley, in London, in 1976, on the Station to Station tour, not once but twice. I'd become such a fan, and he had become such a focus of what I thought I wanted to do with my life at the time.

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.

One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.

From where you are you can hear in Cockle Row in the spring, moonless night, Miss Price, dressmaker and sweetshop-keeper, dream of her lover, tall as the town clock tower, Samson syrup-gold-maned, whacking thighed and piping hot, thunderbolt-bass'd and barnacle-breasted, flailing up the cockles with his eyes like blowlamps and scooping low over her lonely loving hotwaterbottled body.

Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

furor poeticus

Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.