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

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Ivor Novello

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Scott Haywood

It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.

Neal A. Maxwell

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Mike Murdock

The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Charlotte Rae

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

Gail Carson Levine

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

Howard Fast

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.

John Orton

That was a marvelous occupation and very successful,

Joan Baez

I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.

Alan Young

We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

John Siler

The story was made into a marvelous movie of the same name starring Stewart Granger, Mel Ferrer and Janet Leigh. In some ways it's a comedy. In some ways it's a drama.

Jim Barksdale

This is a marvelous way to put people together on the Web.