Quotes About Passion

Once upon a time…there lived a young artist. Many of the works that he created seemed to have the spark of life within them, and they captured the hearts of the people. One of those people was another young man…who was entranced by the artist's work. He wished to possess those works of art by any means possible. And in reality…their wishes were one and the same.

Having something worth dying for is never the same as willingness to die.

not here (in the world) for a cause here for love lover's nest is the heart (I'm) here to make one

Say something about real love. Yes, true love—more than parted lips, than parted legs in sorrow's darkroom of potash & blues. Let the brain stumble from its hidingplace, from its cell block, to the edge of oblivion to come to itself, sharp-tongued as a boar's grin in summer moss —Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Safe Subjects," Neon Venacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1993)

If you are really in love with someone, you never worry about the meaning of life.

Eating ice cream is enjoyable; finding true love is more enjoyable; do you think that if you just eat enough ice cream, the accumulated pleasure could ever equal the rapture of true love?

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. —L. P. Jacks Patagonia's

Work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis.

For nearly 40 years Johannes Meintjes has enriched the South African art scene with his personalised works which have the inherent quality of good art - the artist's genuine feelings and moods can be felt in each brush or palette stroke…

And when I found your flesh did not resist, It was the living spirit that I kissed.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

Hurrah for Old Kentuck! That's the way to do it. Give 'em hell, damn 'em.

Your anger is a gift.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

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.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

With women the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.