Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

The passion for money is never fickle.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Mason Cooley

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Mason Cooley

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

Mason Cooley

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

Mason Cooley

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

Mason Cooley

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

Mason Cooley

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Mason Cooley

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

Mason Cooley

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

Mason Cooley

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Mason Cooley

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Mary Karr

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Michael Gartner

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Michael Franti

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their faces and feeling uplifted.

Michael Chabon

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

Michiel Huisman

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

Michio Kaku

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Michel Houellebecq

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

Martha Stewart

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

Martha Stewart

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

Martha Stewart

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

Mark Zuckerberg

Find that thing you are super passionate about.