Quotes About Passion

Watch me work! Watch me work! Watch me work!

Someone asked a concert violinist in New York's Carnegie Hall how she became so skilled. She said that it was by "planned neglect." She planned to neglect everything that was not related to her goal.

Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

Well, yes,when you no longer have any desire, you are dead. Even desire for a product, a consumer item, is better than no desire at all. Desire for a camera, for instance, even a cheap one, a tawdry one, is enough to keep death at bay." a wicked smile, an inhale of the cigarette with those lips. "If the desire is real, of course.

John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn't stopped. I don't think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Ongoing passion and growth in intimacy requires us to let go of our ideas of what we "should" be doing and instead trust the wisdom inherent in our unguarded heart and uninhibited body.

Nothing's boring if it's in your soul…

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.

I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery. --- Ann Eliza Young, page 253

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

I am a war cry, bold and brash. I am kindling. I am ash, an evanescent glory.

Its impossible to invest your soul in a compromise.

Let's set the place afire.

The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Sous le coup de la colère on veut tout envoyer en l'air; et puis on aime encore, cela nous prend presque par surprise.

According to him, it was not a question of liking or not liking to read, but of finding the book that was meant for you. Everybody could love reading, as long as they had the right book in their hands, a book that spoke to them, a book they could not bear to part with.

Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.

Le sentiment amoureux est le sentiment le plus culpabilisant.

Cuánto le habría gustado a Gourvec que la fundó. Le agradaba que se interesasen por su biblioteca. Era la obra de su vida, como quien dice. Convirtió los fracasos de los otros en su propio triunfo.