Quotes About Passion

I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

I won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

attachment of great intensity and passion, such as one rarely sees. One could not wish, for oneself or for one's friends, any first-hand experience of such extremity of feeling - it is not conducive to comfortable living. And yet there is about it, when observed, something curiously touching and attractive, so that one almost, absurdly, regrets one's own inability to entertain it.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else.

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.