Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Davis

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Mark Shields

All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate Obama had it on his side in 2008. The Democrats had it on their side in 2006. The enthusiasm, the intensity, the passion was all on their side.

Marina Tsvetaeva

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

Marina Abramovic

You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.

Maria Montessori

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Passion makes every detail important.

John F. Kennedy

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

Jonathan Haidt

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

Jonathan Edwards

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Joyce Carol Oates

Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

Julie Foudy

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."

Julie Davis

A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Richard Wilbur

Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Richelle Mead

Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

Richelle Mead

Some part of you will always ... fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That's why you're so reckless in the things you do. You don't hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous

Richelle Mead

You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously … “With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other

Richelle Mead

I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then said the stupidest thing possible. "You're not scared of anything." "I'm scared of a lot of things. I was scared for you" He released me, and I stepped back. There was still passion and worry written all over him. "I'm not perfect, I'm not invulnerable.

Rebecca West

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Ryan Kwanten

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Russell Baker

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

Rose Macaulay

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Rose McGowan

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Romeo Santos

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

Umberto Eco

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Umberto Eco

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Umberto Eco

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Travis Pastrana

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

Rhona Mitra

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Rhonda Byrne

When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.