Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Alexander Pope

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Alexander Pope

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

E. O. Wilson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

E. M. Forster

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

E. M. Forster

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

E. M. Forster

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

E. M. Forster

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Drew Barrymore

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

Drew Barrymore

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Donald Bren

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

Dorothea Lange

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Doris Lessing

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

Don Watson

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

Craig Newmark

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Daniel Pipes

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

Daniel Radcliffe

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

Daniel Boulud

Céline Labaune has the knowledge, passion and dedication to finding us only the best truffles from the most reliable source of truffle pickers. It is always a pleasure and a relief to work with the ones who care the most!

Dan Jenkins

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

Dan Harmon

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

Cotton Mather

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

Clive Davis

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

E. B. White

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Donald Trump

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

Donald Trump

You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide

Donald Trump

If you don't have passion, you have no energy, and if you don't have energy, you have nothing.

David Foster Wallace

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

David Platt

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

Curtis Joseph

I still have the passion to play.

Corey Taylor

You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.