When Passion Becomes Profession Quotes

#1. Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. Every story has its demands.

Clint Eastwood

#3. Every form correctly seen is beautiful.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter

T. S. Eliot

#5. American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

Upton Sinclair

#6. Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

Joan Lindsay

#7. Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.

Len Fisher

#8. I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Marian Seldes

#9. I would never end a book with "sexy". I would end it with love. It's just not my style.

Candie Kisses

#10. Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

Jackie French

#12. One should never begrudge deletions.

Theodor W. Adorno

#13. The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks ... Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

Tim Dorsey