Quotes About Passion

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.

How would I ever consider a skill that gave me goose bumps a hobby?

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

He that is jealous is not in love. —St. Augustine

Do you get to use your greatest strength every day at work?

Follow your heart, trust your instincts, and above all else, have fun!

The one thing that kept me moving forward has been the profound sense of joy I felt as I was receiving the material.

It is not enough to be loved by your mother. It is a good start, and you wouldn't want to do without, and it helps, but is not enough. You need also the love of your community, the love of friends and admirers, the love of strangers who don't know you but still wish you well, the love that comes from passion and from commitment and from someone who will never, never betray you and not just because they're related to you. You need more love. We all need more love.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

It was a crime of passion. "Mine to", Ben nodded, also miserably. And which was worse, Penn thought. Out of hatred or love?

there was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a premonition. Not as the moment to grab her hand and turn and run.

She dreamed that the kiss had been like flint on steel, and Karis had ignited like tinder.

It's not the having that matters to you, am I right? So you can imagine living your whole life beside me, in a state of unfulfilled desire, and that's acceptable to you because it is desire itself that gives you joy.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me

Oh ! si au lieu d'être un enfer, l'univers n'avait été qu'un céleste anus immense, regardez le geste que je fais du côté de mon bas-ventre : oui, j'aurais enfoncé ma verge, à travers son sphyncter sanglant, fracassant, par mes mouvements impétueux, les propres parois de son bassin !

A great passion has no partner.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.