Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virat Kohli

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Woodrow Wilson

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Woody Allen

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

William Wordsworth

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

Richard Flanagan

What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.

Tori Amos

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Vance Havner

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Robin Gibb

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

Samuel Rutherford

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Brian Brown

It got kind of wild there at the end.

Hector Carrasco

It is kinda frustrating, but that is the way it is sometimes.

Carmen Electra

I was a little nervous, 'cause for me, it's kinda like taking a big step and really doing something different,

Alan Thicke

He was kind enough to take me under his wing.

Pete Johnson

He was one of the most humble, kindest men I've ever met. He was able to relate to everybody.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.