Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Saltz

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Jerry Seinfeld

You can be passionate about anything.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture. Your prospect will be glad to talk about what he/she just did or likes to do. Try to captivate him or her in intelligent conversation with engaging questions about their interests. It's obviously better if you're versed in the subject, because that's where rapport is established. Get the prospect to talk about their passions and what makes them happy.

Jim Gaffigan

I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.

Jennifer Lawrence

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

Jennifer Lopez

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Live with passion. Live with purpose.

Jeff Foxworthy

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

James Buchan

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James C. Collins

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

James A. Garfield

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

James A. Baldwin

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

James A. Baldwin

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

James A. Baldwin

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

James A. Baldwin

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

Christopher Lambert

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

George Harrison

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

Fritz Weaver

Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

George Chapman

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Christian Louboutin

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

Chris Shays

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

Chris Marker

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Chris Gardner

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

Chris Gardner

There is no plan B for passion

Frances O'Connor

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

George Washington

When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen

George Washington

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

George Saunders

Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more mainstream politicians, and benefited from it. The difference, of course, is that Bernie understood this in a more compassionate framework, and talked about it in conjunction with a revitalization of another part of the American project, which is the notion that we are all created equal, and that our laws and culture and action ought to reflect that.

George Santayana

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.