Quotes About Passion

Even now I cling to the idea that amour fou, curdled as it was, still had me in its grip. I want to believe this. If you do not act out of some form of love, then who are you in the world?

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Nice shot, Cupid.

Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.

I come from the land where Anna Karenina was written. I believe in love, even if it is doomed.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

the bravest act of war is love.

Many remember the London Season of 1823 as being fraught with passion, excitement, and more than one act of derring-do. But more than anything, they remember that 1823 was the year of the color gold—what with the popularity of the Golden Lady, and every young debutante trying to copy her style.

Sex, Emma thought. It curdled the mind and turned one into a drooling idiot. She had firsthand knowledge.

I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?" (Editorial, The Times , 22 July 1853)

It's been great hearing you talk about the position. I'd love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.

had found a career they loved not by contemplating what would turn them on but by bumping into it someplace out in the world.

by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. "I am a terribly modern person," she decided.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Desire is story itself.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother.

Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.