Quotes About Passion

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.

Indeed. When it comes to books, the saucier, the better, don't you think?

Once you discover that you can make magic with a brush, painting becomes like breathing. You can't live without

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

At its core, Hip Hop is not just an art form; it is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the Arts.

Love will always be without a doubt, Within Hate

self-annihilation is necessary for high art

Extreme American gun love really is a lot like American religious faith.

the stories of the supremely successful entrepreneurs obscure the forgotten millions of losers and nincompoops. The fabulous successes seem like proof of the power of passionate belief in oneself, our American faith in faith.

As we let a hundred dogmatic iterations of reality bloom, the eventual result was an anything-goes relativism that extends beyond religion to almost every kind of passionate belief: If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise. That's the real-life reductio ad absurdum of American individualism. And it would become a credo of Fantasyland.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories." -Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special!

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion

Mejor quemarse que apagarse lentamente.

it's better to burn out than fade away

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.