Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Wayne Gretzky

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

John Mica

We have the votes to pass the House,

Tom Armstrong

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

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?

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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Cary Fukunaga

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

Ludwig von Mises

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

Ludwig von Mises

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

Passion is the beginning of success

We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.

William Shakespeare

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Baz Luhrmann

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

With other communities around us passing similar ordinances, it seemed like the wise thing to do.

We pass on a lot of them because they are too expensive.

We passed very well throughout and we communicated well.

We passed on our protest, saying no shooting should have been done.

David Gemmell

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

David Gemmell

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

David Baldacci

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

David Whyte

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.

David Ogilvy

As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

Danger Mouse

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Danica McKellar

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

Daisaku Ikeda

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Condola Rashad

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.