The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I'm just having a ball. There's a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I'm enjoying it.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.
Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'
What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
I'm like a junkie for writing.
My mother gave me a ball, and from then on, there was only football in my life.
I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.
I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.