Quotes About Passion

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

I have sworn to die painting.

The Sydney Cricket Ground is my favourite ground in the world, my home ground, and growing up in the bush all I wanted was to play at the SCG.

If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

When I say I gave it my all in Sydney, I really did.

I have the pleasure of being surrounded by desserts and chocolate. If that makes me a sex symbol then great, but it's not my aim in life.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I was a 'Star Wars' fanatic growing up. I guess I still am. Pretty much for everybody who grew up in the 1980s as well, it's a symbol of their childhood.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

In a time when directors did not fear composers with a strong voice, Morricone wrote scores like operas or symphonies, with passion, scope, bravura and intelligence.

A symphony is no joke.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.