Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Rich

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Adrienne Rich

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Agatha Christie

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Ada Leverson

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Ada Louise Huxtable

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Abraham Flexner

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alex Pettyfer

When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You wanna give your all.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

William Shakespeare

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Oscar Arias

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Wayne Gretzky

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Damien Hirst

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

To us, it's not a passing phase but a vital technology for the 21st century.

Traditionally, in previous evacuations, Sabine Pass residents have been reluctant to leave,

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. We just seemed very disinterested.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. Just seemed very much disinterested. Then we picked things up, played with more energy, got the lead.

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

I think we'll probably pass Toyota in the U.S. on the workers-per-vehicle metric.

I think we just strung six passes together, ... That's what we need to do consistently.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

Cynthia Ozick

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

Cyril Connolly

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Cyril Connolly

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cornel West

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Cornel West

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Dwight Howard

The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.

Colin Morgan

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from passing couturiers.