Quotes:I arrived last night, right in time for English Department cocktails. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a
passion for D. H Lawrence [A Beautiful Mind]
View quotes by Paul BettanyTrying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew
Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
View quotes by Ben BagdikianIf intellection and knowledge were mere
passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. [Deep thoughts indeed!]
View quotes by Ralph CudworthI understand by this
passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
View quotes by Edward GibbonI think I infuse the music with a new
passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic.
View quotes by Lorin MaazelBut life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and
passion.
View quotes by Sylvia PlathAdmiration is a very short-lived
passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
View quotes by Joseph AddisonNothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a
passion for his own music that is even stronger than his
passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
View quotes by Bill CosbyFriendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same,
As strong in
passion is, though not so gross.
View quotes by Katherine PhilipsSince obscenity is the truth of our
passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
View quotes by D H LawrenceIt is the
passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
View quotes by Christian Nestell BoveeAnger is a momentary madness, so control your
passion or it will control you.
View quotes by G M TrevelyanI am in favour of soccer
passion as I am in favour of drag racing, of competition between motorcycles on the edge of a cliff, and of wild parachute jumping, mystical mountain climbing, crossing oceans in rubber dinghies, Russian roulette, and the use of narcotics.
View quotes by Umberto EcoMan's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first
passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
View quotes by Lord ByronClarity of mind means clarity of
passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
View quotes by Blaise PascalSubdue your
passion or it will subdue you.
View quotes by HoraceDemocratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their
passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
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