Quotes About Passion

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Margarete Matzenauer reveled in the gorgeous opulence of her royal purple voice.

William Ralston Balch, 1883

My own love of books begins long before I start to read them. First of all, I am an incurable book-sniffer; when I open a new book I at once savour its scent, and I have had some odd looks from bookshop assistants in consequence...

...all my soul within me burning...

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

Most writers have a cherished beat-up typewriter and a favorite well-maintained pen.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.

Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.

Your writing chamber isn't the office or the study — it's your heart.

The traditional sacrifices of a writer are soul and sleep.

Writing is both a sacrificing and a saving of soul.

Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers, artists, and singers — all the same urges with differing transportation.

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I was learning then that the terrible thing about being a writer is that you don't decide to be one, you discover that you are one.

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.

You should write and read all day...

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

"And when once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." "But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any other way you can." "To be sure... I have seen a litherary gentleman in a sponging house do crack things on the wall, with a bit of burnt stick..."

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.