Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads. ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'

Colin Mochrie

If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

Harvey Mackay

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop.

George Blagden

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

Ice T

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

David Levithan

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

David Levithan

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...

David Letterman

Welcome to the program. My name is Dave Letterman, and tonight I'm giving my two-week notice.

David Letterman

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

David Letterman

John Kerry says that foreign leaders want him to be president, but that he can't name the foreign leaders. That's all right, President Bush can't name them either.

David Letterman

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

David Gemmell

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

David Eagleman

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David Eagleman

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David O. Russell

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

David O. Russell

Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

Daniel Alarcon

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

Danica McKellar

It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

Daisy Ashford

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Dakota Fanning

People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.

Conan O'Brien

Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'

Claude Shannon

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

Colin Angle

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

Colin Hanks

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

Colin Farrell

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Daphne du Maurier

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

We were working on some names right now of possible suspects.

Clarence Clemons

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

Dan Brown

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

David Frum

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

David Foster Wallace

This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.