Quotes About Passion

I said, 'Never. Because I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.' That shut her up for a minute. Then she asked where I went to college.

there are a lot of women writers who never get married and don't have kids. I am married, but I didn't marry until I was 43. I knew when I was young that if I had to make a choice between being married and being a writer, I would have chosen to be a writer. I think it's a career where you have to put the career first. I don't have kids but - and luckily everyone isn't like this — I think if you have that passion, in a way, your career is your child.

Yo albergaba la teoría de que el único lugar de Nueva York donde la gente podía encontrar amor y romanticismo era en la comunidad gay. Los homosexuales eran amigos con exuberancia y pasión, mientras que el amor hetero se había vuelto clandestino.

their hearts in it. It was well

Deep in every angler's soul is a secret confidence in his own special prowess that impels him to keep fishing in the face of common sense, basic science, financial ruin, and even natural disasters.

Nobody with a living brain cell goes into the newspaper business for the money. They're in it because digging up the truth is interesting and consequential work, and for sheer entertainment it beats the hell out of humping product for GE or Microsoft.

This is not a well person. This is a man who put a shock collar on your husband, a man who gets high off frog slime. He's done things you don't want to know about, probably even killed people.' 'At least he believes in something.

It was the third dead body he'd found while fishing, but such was the reality of a childhood spent outdoors in Florida. It was a testament to the teen's passion for angling that he'd never considered

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.

Cuando hablamos de la ira del cielo, la agitación del mar, la resistencia de los diamantes a ser tallados, la atracción que ejerce la Tierra sobre un asteroide cercano o la excitación de un átomo, de nuevo pensamos en una especie de visión animista del mundo. Estamos atribuyendo existencia real a objetos inertes. Algún nivel primitivo de nuestro pensamiento dota a la Naturaleza inanimada de vida, pasiones y premeditación.

Our passion for learning is our tool for survival.

It is on this world that we developed our passion for exploring the Cosmos, and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

we are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in time when the search for knowledge is generally prized

Scientific insight made him feel something, a soaring sensation, a recognition that he could only compare to falling in love. And as he used to say: "When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

So we all love a wild girl keeping a hold On a dream she wants.

A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?

You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!--and death was the only icebox where you could keep it....

I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I'm consumed with envy an' eaten up with longing? –

I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

Oh, no se puede describir al que se ama

You were a wonderful lover... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. Isn't that right? Never had any anxiety about it, did it naturally, easily, slowly, with absolute confidence and perfect calm, more like opening a door for a lady or seating her at a table than giving expression to any longing for her. Your indifference made you wonderful at lovemaking - strange? - but true...