Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman MacCaig

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Orson Pratt

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk

Oscar de la Renta

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

Olympia Dukakis

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Oliver Stone

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

Oliver Sacks

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.

Oliver Sacks

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

Oliver Sacks

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Emile Zola

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Emile Zola

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Emile Zola

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

Emile M. Cioran

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Ellen Glasgow

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Ellen G. White

Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.

Eric Ripert

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

Eric Ripert

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

Eric S. Raymond

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Emil Nolde

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

Emeril Lagasse

I love to cook; that's my passion.

Emeril Lagasse

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

Henri Matisse

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Hattie McDaniel

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Herodotus

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Heinrich Heine

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Hideo Kojima

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Henry Clay

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ....

Helen Clark

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A great passion has no partner.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.