Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valentino Garavani

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Valentino Rossi

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Valentino Rossi

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

Richard Dawkins

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Roelof Botha

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Robin Hobb

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Roger Goodell

I've spent my life following my passion.

Sarah Lacy

I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.

Sara Gruen

Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

Sandra Boynton

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language

Samuel Johnson

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Samuel Johnson

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

Samuel Johnson

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Samuel Johnson

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

Wallace Stevens

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

Vittorio Alfieri

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Virgil

Passion and strife bow down the mind

Warren Buffett

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Vincent Van Gogh

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Will Hermes

Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Wayne Dyer

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

Walter Chrysler

Collecting has always been in my blood.

Virginia Woolf

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Virginia Woolf

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

Virginia Woolf

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

William Blake

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.