Quotes About Passion

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Like most art students, I expect I'll find that there is no demand for what I've learned so I'll teach other students so that one day they can teach as well.

Lust on this scale was rare: it seemed a crime to waste it.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.

We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it.

malgré tout leur fameux cynisme (ou peut-être à cause de lui), les Sarantins étaient presque toujours d'une nature émotive et passionnée, comme si vivre au centre du monde donnait du relief et de l'importance à chaque événement de leur existence.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

it's so easy to be a fool when one falls in love.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. After

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

Writing is a delicious agony.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Beauty is frequently symbolized in the person of a girl--sometimes passive, sometimes aggressive, but always passionate, although the passions may be only hinted at and expressed through traditional erotic symbolism.