Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlize Theron

I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

Charlaine Harris

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Charles Baudelaire

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Charles Baudelaire

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion).

Chaim Potok

In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

Charlie Munger

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Charlie Munger

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

Charles Schumer

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.

Charles M. Blow

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Charles Handy

Passion is born of vague hopes.

Bindi Irwin

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

Bob Marshall

For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

Bill Walsh

Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

Bob Hoskins

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

Bobby Jones

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Bobby Flay

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Barbara Tuchman

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

Avril Lavigne

I'm so excited to act; that has been a huge passion for me.

Arthur Blank

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

Arthur Balfour

Ask with urgency and passion.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Anton Chekhov

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

Barry Williams

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Baltasar Gracian

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Baltasar Gracian

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

Ariana Grande

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

Arianna Huffington

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

Anthony Trollope

It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

Diana Vreeland

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.