Quotes about Passion

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

For this is wisdom-- to love and live, To take what fate or the gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time-- let go.

I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating feverish warmth because it couldn't be over-dreamed.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

It was always my dream to drive for Ferrari.

My first love will always be fitness, so I want to share that with as many people as I can.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.