Quotes About Passion

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Your love is doomed, you must give it everything you've got.

Allora, come va il tuo libro, Ruth?' mi ha chiesto Timmy. 'Ruth vuol fare la scrittrice' ha spiegato a Packy. In realtà io non volevo fare la scrittrice, volevo fare la lettrice , aspirazione assai più rara. Ma sai com'è, una cosa tira l'altra.

She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.

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Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Creo que moriré de poesía

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

Jij neukt me vanachter terwijl ik de pennette ai quattro formaggi doorroer.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

Hope is a lover's staff,

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

What wanton liars love makes of us.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.

He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.