Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Midler

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

Betty Friedan

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Benjamin Tucker

Aggression is simply another name for government.

Bill Gates

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

Bill Gates

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

I think it's going to be a wide-open search. I think a lot of names will pop up.

Meryl Streep

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

Drake Bell

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Justin Young

We're the IM generation. They're going to put our screen names on our tombstones.

Justin Young

We're the IM generation, ... They're going to put our screen names on our tombstones.

Hale Irwin

With some of the names that are coming, ... it's going to be a competitive thing.

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Harvey Milk

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

Dean Wareham

I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.

James Frank

We wanted someone with a name that would give a feel for the language, so we started thinking about the qualities we wanted in the language.

We've got a lot of big names we're talking to.

Bernie Sanders

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

Daniel Morgan

This year seems better, and optimism seems to be the name of the game.

Raphael Saadiq

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

At this point, it's all about name recognition.

Rajnath Singh

At the moment, two-three names are under consideration.

Gale Norton

communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.

Name a country, and I have probably been there.

Jerry Orbach

You'd say, 'All of these shows couldn't have been running at the same time. Not 'South Pacific' and 'Mister Roberts' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman' ... yeah, they were.

Robert G. Allen

We will vigorously oppose those allegations, and I feel that, in the end, my client's name will be cleared.

Alexi Lalas

There's nothing in our lease that says anything about what the name of the team has to be.

Emma Thompson

I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash,

We like what we like. All we do is put a new name on what we like.

Cornelia Funke

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Cormac McCarthy

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

Conan O'Brien

Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.