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Quotes About Passion

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
~ James Spader
Stand-up will always be my favorite and the most important thing that I do. I view everything else as free money.
~ Ali Wong
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.
~ Valerie Jarrett
When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.
~ Katy Perry
As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
~ Ella Henderson
To be honest, I'm really not interested on how I'm viewed as. The only thing I'm interested in is to keep creating something special. Whether that something is synonymous to me or not is really none of my concern.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.
~ Kristen Bell
Matthew. I'm here. I'm yours. I want to do everything you've ever imagined doing with me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sturm und Drang?" "Ah…I see that I'll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, 'storm and stress.'
~ Lisa Kleypas
You wanted to find out how much I could make you feel. You wanted to know what it was like to lose yourself in passion, and find yourself safe in my arms afterward. Now I?m here, and I?m going to love you with everything I have in me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .
~ Lisa Kleypas
Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.
~ Lisa Kleypas
This is your punishment, Lara," he whispered. "To burn as I do." -Hunter
~ Lisa Kleypas
No, don't," Evie said urgently as St. Vincent reached for the ties once more. She grappled with him, her fingers tangling with his. And then suddenly his mouth had caught hers, and he pushed her against the side of the building, anchoring her with his own body. His free hand caught the nape of her neck, beneath the weight of her damp hair. The lush pressure of his mouth caused a shock of response in every part of her body, all at once.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Cam had never seen anything like the mute longing that St. Vincent felt for his own wife. No one could fail to observe that whenever Evie entered the room, St.Vincent practically vibrated like a tuning fork.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He kissed her as if he could breathe her in. Fierce kisses, hard ones, teasingly articulate ones, soft enticing ones, kiss to light bonfires and fill the sky and hold the stars aloft.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sweetheart." He let out a serrated breath. "You tempt me just by being in the same room with me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.
~ Lisa Kleypas
My lord," came Daisy's anxious voice, delaying him briefly. "You will find her, won't you?" "Yes," he said without hesitation. "And then I'm going to strangle her.
~ Lisa Kleypas
There hasn't been any other woman," Heath said against her mouth, making her tremble. "There couldn't be. I'm too obsessed with my own wife. There's only one thing you can give me that no one else can . . . and heaven and hell be damned, I'll get it from you no matter how long I have to wait, no matter how hard I have to ride you. No, I'm not talking solely about my husbandly rights, although that would be a good place to start.
~ Lisa Kleypas
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm sorry," he rasped, even as he knew what he was about to do. "My God. Sorry—" His mouth clamped over hers, and he began to kiss her as if his life depended on it.
~ Lisa Kleypas