Quotes About Passion

Shipley—One Toke Over the Line Ramones—I Wanna Be Sedated The Clash—Should I Stay or Should I Go Talking Heads—Burning Down the House Dmitri Shostakovich—Jazz Suite No. 2: Waltz 2

Now that was a road trip," Sherrill said, enthusiastically. "Fightin', fuckin', and detectin.' So what's next?

Might be worth it. I'm so goddamn horny the crack of dawn ain't safe.

I'll have a rose in my teeth," he said. "And a gold badge.

Oh, bullshit," Jenkins said. "You do it because you like it, because you get that feeling in your balls like you're in a falling elevator, and you like it. We all like it. We get all grim and warriored-up about it, but the bottom line is, we like it." "That's somewhat true," Shrake admitted. "That's why Davenport does it: it's better than money," Jenkins said. "You guys bum me out sometimes," Virgil said.

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?

the ground, he messed around with electric guitars, video games, propeller-driven airplanes and wooden speedboats. He loved real hardware even more than he loved his computer, and he did love his computer. If he could build it, fix it, refurbish it, or just plain tinker with it, he was happy.

The only difference between dancing and fucking, he said in those days, is that you don't fuck in front of a live band.

I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both.

I didn't choose the Nerd Life. The Nerd Life chose me. Awkwardly and without making eye contact.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

The three rules of writing: 1. It's Work. 2. It's Work. 3. Surprise! It's Work.

Anything worth doing is worth doing at a fevered pitch.

Total Eclipse of the Heart

We all have passions.

True innovation does not happen when we control creativity," Shai wrote in 2005, "but when we challenge, create shared vision, and passionately pursue excellence."3

When people chase what they love, they will inevitably seek out and immerse themselves in knowledge flows, drinking deeply from new creative wells even as they contribute their own experiences and insights along the way.

Passion in this context refers to a sustained and deep commitment to achieving our full potential and greater capacity for self-expression in a domain that engages us on a personal level.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.