Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Andy Kindler

I noticed when I was driving around that they changed the name of the Interborough Parkway to the Jackie Robinson Parkway. And the Interborough family is very upset about this...

Ambrose Bierce

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Ambrose Bierce

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

Ambrose Bierce

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

Ambrose Bierce

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Ambrose Bierce

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Anthony Kiedis

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

Alice Sebold

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Alice Sebold

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

Abraham Lincoln

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

Allegra Versace

I don't tell many people my last name.

Ann Brashares

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

Ann Coulter

Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama.

Ann Coulter

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Andrzej Wajda

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Andy Cohen

Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself...

Jeff Davis

Well, I like some of the names that are offshore right now,

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alex Jones

It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

Jane Austen

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.

Janina Gavankar

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

Jane Yolen

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Ricky Gervais

We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.

Susan B. Anthony

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Bob Dole

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.