Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Diane Setterfield

There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.

Diane Setterfield

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Dhani Harrison

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

Dave Gahan

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.

David Sedaris

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

Dave Barry

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.

Dave Barry

I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you... Oh, wait, that is our current system.

David Rusenko

Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

Cab Calloway

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

Cab Calloway

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Byron Katie

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Byron Katie

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

Buddy Rich

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Bryan Ferry

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

Bryan Adams

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

Catherine Bell

I've always wanted to produce. I've had my production company name for years, even though I didn't really do anything with it right away.

Caryl Chessman

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Carter Heyward

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

Chord Overstreet

I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name,

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Cheryl Strayed

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Charlaine Harris

I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

Chaim Potok

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Charles Roven

Even in our business, as is the world, we are in the age of specialisation. You see a lot of names of producers on a movie. If you have the idea, if you oversee the development, if you oversee the production, if you help package the movie, you sell the movie - you can be a producer. There's not a lot of us who do the whole gamut.