Quotes About Passion

The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Au moins partageaient-ils la même folie. C'est peut-être ça l'amour.

Henüz sabah?n sekizi olmas?na kar??n hepsi de neÅŸeyle içiyordu. ... Yaralanm?? hayatlar? onlara saÄŸl?kl? tutkular edinecek kadar zevk ve güç vermemiÅŸti; bu yüzden de üç kuruÅŸluk maaÅŸlar?n? güzellik ve mutluluÄŸun yerini tutabilecek alkollere harc?yorlard?.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

O most compassionate Lord Jesus, I implore Thee for the sake of Thy bitter Passion and death, and through the Last Judgment at which Thou wilt be the Judge of the whole world, grant me grace to live in such a manner that at the resurrection I may arise with joy and not with shame." Amen.

Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)

There are many types of love,

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

The girl knew that quarrels would come because their lives were intertwined - how passionately one defends a heart that is vulnerable.

Before you know what Annakey answered, you must know this: Annakey Rainsayer loved three things and feared only one thing. This makes her unusual from the beginning, for most of us love one thing——ourselves——and fear many things. Because we fear more things than we love, our lives are blown this way and that by our fears.

Love was life's secret purpose.