Quotes About Passion

There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

We worship fire because it is the closest sensation to what a man feels when love exists. Fire is a passage and a dance, but its destruction brings renewal.

It's all just a dance, Pavlov thought. And nothing is more devastating than a dance

Against a blue sky the tangelo rose swiftly, first opposing gravity, then submitting, caught in the velocity like a ripe comet streaking towards the bonds of matrimony. In its arc flew the virtues of commitment and loyalty and passion, followed by the afterburners of summer — amorous and ablaze. Faster the tangelo descended, an orange blur; poetic, expensive, at once brunette and blonde, rotating so fast that its skin appeared tan, then pale, then something luminous, the color of love.

Writing is survival. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water

A life's work should be based on love.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the ends of your toes. Taking reasonable risks in part of the challenge, It's the fun.

I worked at something whenever possible. Work is the meat in the hamburger of life. There is an old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I never believed it because, for me, work was play. I got as much pleasure out of it as I did from playing baseball. Baseball

I couldn't tell, and I cared not at all. It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement

Work is the meat in the hamburger of life. There is an old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I never believed it because, for me, work was play. I got as much pleasure out of it as I did from playing baseball.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.