Quotes About Passion

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

In my head the word surrender has never existed, because that is what Real Madrid is about.

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.' Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said. Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.

Physical love, that impulse that drives you to someone special, as well as love of the other person's being, his or her essence, as it were. Carnal love and, well, call it sentimental love, the day-to-day caring about the other person.

a boy and girl in love, burning with it.

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.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

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

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.

My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you.

We were very much in love—the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.