Quotes About Passion

I love you above all things, even pie.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

A girl of 19 doesn't react towards things. She explodes.

You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.

If you are not selfish you are wasting your life

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

I always admired and envied kids who did, who definitely wanted to be a doctor or who were going to go to West Point because their father was in the war, or if somebody wanted to fly, that that was something they definitely wanted to do. I thought that was great, because I didn't have any big desires or great ambitions for anything.

He never learned to read or write so wellBut he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell.

Art saved my life

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It's as ludicrous as saying, "I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor." Either pick it up or don't. I don't want to hear about how your diaper's full. Take it off or stop talking about it.

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.

You never know what motivates you.