William Butler Yeats Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones -
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Jackie Collins -
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
Oded Fehr -
No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
Harold Hamm
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln -
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson -
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln -
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien -
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
Orson Pratt -
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus -
If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
Olivia Cooke -
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
Sarah McLachlan -
We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.
Amit Bhatia -
Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
Iqbal Quadir -
Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
Jacob Bronowski -
... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?
William Butler Yeats