Quotes About Passion

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it when I left it.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

Creative artists have great passion.