Quotes About Passion

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don't have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

Desire is the only justification for obedience.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

You invade every thought I have even when they have nothing to do with you. I'm not just in love with you. I'm kind of obsessed.

What does it say? Does he love you madly?

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Love? ... It's at the heart of every story.

This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand...I'm going to fly till I die.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

that's what love does to you. Gut-wrenching, overpowering, crushing, fulfilling, complex, bring-you-to-your-knees love.

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

copy: "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

If a tortured artist hurls a nasty email at 10 p.m. and then a love song at 11:20, are you up or down?

Damn you!" he reviled her, "damn you for your physical charms!

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?