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Quotes About Passion

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
~ Thomas Mars
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
~ Robert Penn Warren
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.
~ Rupert Graves
For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.
~ Isabelle Adjani
As long as I've got that urge and that fight and fire inside of me I'll continue and records will come and records will be broken. But the day I don't feel that kind of stuff I'm happy to walk away.
~ Dale Steyn
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
~ Jil Sander
I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
~ Rachel Roy
I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
~ Kate Fleetwood
'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again.
~ Mary Steenburgen
I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.
~ Roger Rees
Look, when I was working on a project at school, I had the urge to do that well. And if I'm fixing something up at home or whatever, making something, I want to do that well too. If I'm hanging a lamp and it doesn't work, nobody can talk to me for an hour, almost. And with football I have that urge and that will to win. With all sports.
~ Jaap Stam
Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.
~ Joshua Wong
Yes, I express myself through tweets and other media. But it's just because I love expressing myself; it's a non-stop urge in me.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
~ Isabel Yosito
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.
~ Dave Ramsey
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
~ Neil Young
When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.
~ George C. Wolfe
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
~ Mat Kearney
I love the energy and urgency of working in news.
~ Harris Faulkner
I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.
~ Arca
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
~ Ira Glass
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.
~ John C. Calhoun