Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Condoleezza Rice

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

Condoleezza Rice

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Max Baucus

We've been at this point before and it's passed us. This time, it's going to be different.

We need to start making some, especially in the passing game, that result in touchdowns.

Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from passing couturiers.

Adam Green

I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!

Bill Engvall

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

Cole Porter

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

Claudia Black

I'm passionate about transformation.

Colin Greenwood

That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

Colin Greenwood

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

Dante Alighieri

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Dante Alighieri

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Dan Simmons

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Dan Simmons

Mobs have passions, not brains.

Dan Savage

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

Cynthia Ozick

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

Cyril Connolly

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Cyril Connolly

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cornel West

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Cornel West

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Dwight Howard

The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.