Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Eric Cantona

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

Eoin Colfer

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.

Elvis Costello

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Jasper Johns

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Jason Patric

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Jason Mraz

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.

Hillary Clinton

The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Herbert Read

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

Eva Longoria

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

Eva Longoria

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

Ivanka Trump

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate,

Italo Calvino

So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.

Isabelle Adjani

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

Jack Ma

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

Jack London

The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.

Jack Nicklaus

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

Jack Kemp

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Gilbert

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

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.