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Quotes About Passion

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
~ Don Van Vliet
Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.
~ Roger Schank
The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.
~ Emmylou Harris
I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.
~ Gene Kelly
I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.
~ Jamie Redknapp
I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.
~ Michael Jackson
Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship
~ Richelle Mead
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why
~ Dustin Hoffman
After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.
~ Aurora Aksnes
Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
~ Billy Gibbons
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.
~ Anderson Silva
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
~ Syd Barrett
Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.
~ Tori Amos
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!
~ Coco Chanel
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
~ Sydney J. Harris
We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.
~ Shannon Leto
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
I Play When I Want to Play.
~ Randy Moss
There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
~ George Michael
My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.
~ Marilyn Mosby
I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
~ Randall Munroe