Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. – Glenn Close
One of the reasons I’m so passionate about science is that it wasn’t correctly taught to me. I got excited at university. – Elise Andrew
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns. – Franz Wright
What’s been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated. – Nathaniel Philbrick
I’m passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister. – Erin Wasson
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. – D. H. Lawrence
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. – Freda Adler
My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing – that I was not a very passionate woman. – Debbie Reynolds
I actually didn’t like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen. – Frances O’Connor
I remember vividly what it’s like to read as a 10-year-old – that passionate inhabiting of a book. – China Mieville
I’m probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I’m probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn. – Mackenzie Davis
There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting. – Martin Henderson
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination. – Diane Sawyer
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else. – Elon Musk