Quotes About Passion

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

You have to remember, Kanai, she said at length, that as a young man Nirmal was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to mercenary.

Love is a kind of infection, possessing then releasing you.

L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perchè amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidità, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli è più prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.

Sometimes Yoel had the feeling that it was not his sexual organ but his whole being that was penetrating and luxuriating inside her womb. That he was entirety wrapped up and quivering inside her. Until with each caress the difference between caresser and caressed vanished, as though they had ceased being a man and a woman making love and had become one flesh.

Aquellos que no se entusiasman con nada se enfrían y comienzan a morirse. Hay que empezar a desear de verdad. Coger la vida con las dos manos para que no se escape, si es que comprendéis lo que quiero decir. Si no, todo está perdido.

Muy a menudo, el fanático sólo puede contar hasta uno, ya que dos es un número demasiado grande para él o ella. Al mismo tiempo, descubriremos que, a menudo, los fanáticos son sentimentales sin remedio.

If I ever totally fell for Ed, I realized, I'd have to be comfortable with the idea of becoming an audiophile-phile--someone who's in love with someone who's in love with stereo equipment.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Some pieces of music, I like them so much, I wonder why they have to end, and if I had the strength, I'd keep playing them forever.

Tutto quello che ho fatto con te era amore.

A painter was asked why he became a painter. He replied, Because I love the smell of paint.

A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort

Acaso el odio no es un simple resultado del amor herido?

Quiero que nuestro amor sea tan grande que nos duela por dentro