Quotes About Passion

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

You only live once...

I'm mad about good books , can't get my fill .

Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you're young, you probably hate it at some point, but it never goes away. It still informs the way you see the world.

Damn it, woman—can't you see I love you!

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

I love it--I just love it.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Poor Cecil, consumed by a grande passion, only to be told to compress his love manifesto into a haiku. "I won't try to excuse my behavior," he said. "It was despicable." Or a limerick. There once was a rotter named Cecil, Whose Love Interest wished he could be still. Oh well. Unlike some, at least, I've never pretended to be a poet.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)

Die Inspiration war mein Gott und ist es geblieben.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.

Passion makes one persuasive.

I've always wanted to make movies.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

With the exception of buying a big rig and becoming cross-country truck drivers, most of Jerry and Ben's ideas for a business involved food. They both liked to eat, so it seemed like a logical career move.