Quotes About Passion

I've been writing seriously since the 90s and my first manuscript was a "hysterical." I was in love with Vikings back then but somehow my Vikings sounded like Navy SEALs on horses. I guess my love for Navy SEALs can be traced back to those Viking sea marauders!

That's why I'm in love with you. You turn me on without even trying.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, The silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, My heart is a frozen pond Gleaming with agitated torches.

My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

And as nearer and ever nearer I felt the throb of your tread, To be in the world grew dearer, And my blood ran rosier red.

If you love someone, everything else is crap.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

quod defles, illud amasti.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Creating music implies the desire to give.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You are the one I am lit for. Come with your rod that twists and is a serpent. I am the bush. I am burning I am not consumed.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

She didn't say she loved him then. She said it later that night, when he was breathing deeply beside her, the sleep of peace and satiety, as he always did when they'd released each other from passion by indulging it without limit. He slept heavily, so she could smooth his hair, kiss him without his knowing, and whisper the words she didn't know how to say when he heard her. "Tuscan Tycoon's Wife

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.