Quotes About Passion

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Music is what mathematics does on a Satruday night.

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women. (Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

But the instrument she picked up and insisted on playing was this beautiful little quarter-size violin, setup for the left hand. They tried to move her to a right-hand instrument, and she absolutely refused. So Jill and her mother reached a compromise of sorts. Jill would play the violin, which her mother desperately wanted her to do, but she would play on the left-hand instrument.

My muse, whatever it is, is leading me to write stories.

Sometimes I don't feel like writing at all...It seems so selfish, writing.

When married people develop such an intense but inappropriate fixation to somebody other than their mate, they may be driven to jeopardize or even destroy a reasonable marital relationship. In the heat of passion, they seem incapable of attaching any real weight to the potentially disastrous consequences of their infatuation--the possible breakup of their marriage.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Lift you hips for me my love

J'ai vu la fin de toutes choses sauf de trois : la fin de la perfidie de l'âme passionnelle, la fin de la sublimité de l ' Élu et la fin de la connaissance.

Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Live your life like it is the last day you live!

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

I'm Chinese and in China making a beautiful meal for someone is the highest expression of love. Food is a very sensual, passionate thing. Culturally, I understood why my husband wanted to make this big meal for me. But he couldn't understand why I was having such a strong reaction to such a silly simple thing like yams. It's hard to understand how something that tastes sweet in on person's mouth, in another person's mouth can taste so bitter.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

We ache with the yearning that turns half into whole and offer no excuses for the beauty of our souls.

The pursuit of excellence with unrestrained passion can lead to the accomplishment of wonders with unsurpassed joy.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

It may be that poetry's real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.