Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Bruce

I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.

J. D. Pardo

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

Isaac Watts

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Isaac Watts

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

Isabel Allende

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

Irving Howe

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

Guy Pearce

I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

Guy Kawasaki

Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

Ginni Rometty

IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Everything I do is part of my passion.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

Gwen Stefani

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

Craig Biggio

He still has the passion to pitch. I think we have a chance. I'm hoping.

How can you maul for 61 pass plays?

He's one of the most passionate performers I've ever seen or heard. It's just thrilling to be on the stage with him.

If I were to point out one strong, strong point in the team, it is the passing of the fullbacks.

I'm working with what I've got, that's what I've got to go with. I'm not 100 percent, but it's fine. I can still play defense, still pass and do other things.

In the end we end up with more passenger traffic.

Henrik Lundqvist

In Sweden and Europe, they pass more and set up other players. Here, they go right to the net.

In passing situations, we widened our ends. We thought we could keep up with their size.

Sylvia Hatchell

I just think this is a real special group. They have a passion for playing, and not just playing but playing the way we play: up and down the court.

Certainly, no one was thinking they were going to pass the most significant legislation of the past 50 years.

They said if you're in shape, then get on a plane at noon, pass a physical, and then we'll sign you.

Neil Jackson

I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about.

John Piper

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

John Piper

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

John Wesley

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

John Wesley

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

John Tillotson

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

John Tillotson

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.