Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evangeline Lilly

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Evangeline Lilly

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Jeremy Piven

You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’

Glenda Jackson

To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Jessica Alba

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

Jay Haas

I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation.

Muriel Rukeyser

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

Moby

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

Mike Rowe

Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

Mike Rowe

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

Kurt Loder

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

Kevin Harrington

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

Kathleen Turner

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

Kajol

Shah Rukh is as passionate and as enthusiastic as ever.

Julia Child

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

Jude Law

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Joseph Joubert

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Joseph Joubert

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Kristin Kreuk

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

Kristin Hannah

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Myles Munroe

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Moliere

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Moliere

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Moliere

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Mike Birbiglia

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

H. G. Wells

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.