Quotes About Passion

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

Aphrodite of sexual love, Apollo of light and poetry

El crimen pasional es mexicano de nacimiento.

I lay down beside her and there we stayed for a long time, kissing and caressing each other as we had never done before. It was as if both of us knew at each moment exactly the kind of caress that the other needed or desired.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Los rasgos del carácter son "los anhelos apasionados relativamente permanentes".

I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

No longer are you Sekhmet the Slayer: you are Hathor the Lady of Love. Yet your power over mankind shall be greater even than it was – for the passion of love shall be stronger than the passion of hate, and all shall know love, and all shall be your victims.

He was a man of impulse, of lavish activity so long as his attention was fully absorbed; he disliked painstaking detail or following through the schemes that he originated with such undisciplined energy.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

It's kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It's also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that it's a kind of postmodernist view—to survive a meaningless life strictly on your tastes in things, your styles.

Hold the story inside until you are ready to burst. He

vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests

paradise" is defined in contrast to the stresses of home. Take away those stresses for a couple of months, and it's hard to wring much passion or esteem from hanging out on a beach and not doing much.

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.