Quotes About Passion

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

Art is not a career - it's a life.

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.