Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.

Camille Pissarro

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

Caitlin Moran

Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt.

Carl Jung

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

Carl Jung

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Carl Jung

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Diana DeGarmo

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Diana Gabaldon

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder...

Deepak Chopra

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Deepak Chopra

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

Edward Gibbon

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

Ed Westwick

You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

Ed Gillespie

People like passion in politics.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.

Elizabeth Kostova

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Edmund Waller

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

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.

Benjamin Whichcote

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

We'll see if we can pass them on to your heirs then.

Chelsea Handler

I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.

Charlie Sheen

People misinterpret my passion for anger.

Charles Kuralt

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Ai Weiwei

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

Bliss Carman

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.