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

Gail Shearer

Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Barbara Smith

There is a lot of confusion right now, and this just makes it worse.

Bill Rucker

There is no doubt confusion played a role in the first day.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Eric Walters

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Brian Molko

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Smiley

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.