Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Colin Morgan

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

The pass itself, the policy is written on the pass that it's non-transferable and may not be resold.

Frank Thomas

The passion on this team is like I've never seen before in my 15 years here,

The passing was just unbelievable. We've been playing so well as a team.

When you have the regulators working with the regulated, it doesn't pass the smell test.

Hines Ward

The play-calling was aggressive. They thought all we can do is run the ball. We can pass the ball, too.

Orson Scott Card

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.

We were not doing anything different. We just started making the right pass and we rebounded strong.

Katherine Anne Porter

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.