Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Pipes

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

Daniel Boulud

Céline Labaune has the knowledge, passion and dedication to finding us only the best truffles from the most reliable source of truffle pickers. It is always a pleasure and a relief to work with the ones who care the most!

Dan Jenkins

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

Dan Harmon

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

Cotton Mather

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

Clive Davis

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

E. B. White

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Andrew Sarris

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

Anacreon

My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

Anatole France

Our passions are ourselves.

Anais Nin

Passion gives me moments of wholeness

Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.

Anais Nin

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

Amanda Tapping

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

Anne Hathaway

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

Anita Roddick

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.

Anita Roddick

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Anita Roddick

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

Anita Roddick

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Andrew Cohen

Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Allyson Felix

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Anthony de Mello

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anne Rice

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

Anne Rice

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Anna Julia Cooper

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Anita Diament

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

Andrew Tan

Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrea Arnold

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andre Maurois

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Ambrose Bierce

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Ambrose Bierce

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.