Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

C. S. Lewis

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

C. S. Lewis

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Agnes de Mille

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Agnes de Mille

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes Repplier

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles de Gaulle

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Carole Bouquet

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

C. S. Lewis

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Aaron Spelling

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Dickens

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

Richard G. Scott

While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

Susan B. Anthony

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Brian Wilson

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Brian Eno

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.