Quotes About Passion

Art must be of the people if it is to be art at all," wrote Starr. "It is only when a man is doing work which he wishes done, and delights in doing, and which he is free to do as he likes, that his work becomes a language to him.

What is the great passion of your life?" I asked. "Beauty," he replied without hesitation.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

There are many kinds of love, I think. There's passionate love, and there's dutiful love, though often we don't realize that really they're just different sides of the same coin." He pulled up his collar. "And then there's another kind of love. The kind we can only show by setting someone free.

Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable.

La juventud persiste hasta mucho después de que uno ha dejado de ser joven. El amor por la vida permanece indefinidamente, con menos probabilidad de ser amado, menos habilidad de amar, y con el aguijón de la pasión tan acuciante como siempre. El solterón envejecido no es tan distinto de un viejo halcón.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Whether we work to live, as most of us do, or live to work, as some of us are lucky enough to do, work doesn't have to be a four-letter word. It can and should be a source of belonging, growth, and pleasure.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger with which he wished to impale her.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all in this way. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Tudo nessa vida acaba em bagatela e aquele que, para agradar aos outros se mata trabalhando por dinheiro, honras ou o que for, sem que a isso o mova sua própria paixão ou necessidade, é, com certeza, um tolo.

Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.

De ce oare fluviul geniului izbucne?te atât de rar ?i atât de rar se revars? în valuri puternice ?i v? cutremur? sufletul uimit?

Yo amo a aquel que desea lo imposible.

Talih onun gö?süne bir ruh koymu? ki Onu hep ç?lg?nca yönetir ara vermeden, Ve acele eden ve hemen buyuransa Atlar yeryüzünün sevinçlerini ve do?an?n yasalar?n?.

Voglio vedere chi può superarmi nel talento di amare. In verità è un talento pieno di dolore, di sofferenza, di lacrime; ma mi è così congeniale, così adatto, che difficilmente vi rinuncerò mai.

Inoltre apprezza più il mio ingegno e i miei talenti che non il mio cuore, che invece è il mio solo orgoglio ed è l'unica sorgente di tutto, di ogni energia, beatitudine e miseria... Ah, chiunque può sapere quello che so io... Ma il mio cuore l'ho soltanto io.

I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.