Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

Susan Sontag

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Susan Sontag

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Susan Sontag

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

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.

Rick Warren

Passion drives perfection.

Trisha Yearwood

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

Tracey Ullman

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Torsten Wiesel

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Steve Vai

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Vince Lombardi

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win...

Vijender Singh

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

Robert Graves

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

Steve Irwin

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Steve Irwin

All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.

Steve Jobs

Don't just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.

Steve Case

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

Stephen Spender

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

Stephen Fry

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

Stephen Fry

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

Stephen Fry

The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

Stephen Fry

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Sri Aurobindo

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.