Passion Quotes
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
Alexander McQueen
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I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.
Mary Frann
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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton
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I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
Lady Gaga
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Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
Oprah Winfrey
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.
James McGreevey
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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
Edmund White
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
Lauren Lapkus
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Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
Albert Camus
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Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
Mario Batali
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I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
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When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
Butch Trucks
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Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.
Elizabeth Kostova
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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
Cristina Saralegui
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I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
Kirstie Alley
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have so many just precious, fond memories that revolve around food, and that's why I have such a passion for it.
Kimberly Schlapman
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
Yvon Chouinard
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
Beverly Sills
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Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
Barack Obama