Quotes About Passion

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.