Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wrestled here; I wore the singlet. I have a passion for the sport. This is where I like to be.

He just has a passion for the game.

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. We just seemed very disinterested.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. Just seemed very much disinterested. Then we picked things up, played with more energy, got the lead.

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.

Umberto Eco

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Travis Pastrana

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

Rhona Mitra

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

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.

Woodrow Wilson

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We 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.

William Wordsworth

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

William Wordsworth

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

William Shatner

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

William McFee

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

William McNamara

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

Sarah Brady

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

Sara Zarr

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

William Faulkner

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

Richard Selzer

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Reba McEntire

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

Robert De Niro

Passion should always trump common sense.

Richard Le Gallienne

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.