Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Bocelli

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

Alan Cohen

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

William Shakespeare

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

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.

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.

Aleister Crowley

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

Algernon Sidney

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

Aldous Huxley

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Aldous Huxley

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Albert Einstein

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

Albert Einstein

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

Adrienne Rich

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

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?

Jason Alexander

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Poetry has passion, ... And passion has power to reach a person's soul in a way that words cannot.

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jane Austen

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.

Jan Hammer

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Janis Joplin

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

Janet Guthrie

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.