Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Arsene Wenger

I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

Ron Gardenhire

That was kind of ugly. That's a little disappointing. Like I told you, that's why we haven't named our staff yet, because you never know what's going to happen.

Cassandra Clare

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

George Eliot

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Salman Rushdie

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

John Bunyan

A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.

Suzi Quatro

In Japan, they named a sake after me.

Anne Perry

I'm not a big name at all. Not at all.

I like it better like this. I'd rather be the underdogs. I'd rather people not know my name when I come out and do this stuff. Then they'll say, 'Who was that?'

Mamie Eisenhower

I had a career. His name was Ike.

Tom Doak

If you're relying on selling memberships or property, ... Jack's name is golden.

Page Kennedy

I needed this opportunity to play this kind of character. It isn't the kind that comes around often and it's usually played by a name (actor). This is an opportunity for me to showcase all the years of training I've had.

After we named the vendor, GTECH, they said that they could get it done earlier.

That's all right with us. We're trying to make a name for ourselves on the road. We're doing it, slowly but surely.

All of a sudden, you turn your back and the old names are going up.

It's a symbolic gesture. Nobody actually, officially named a star.

It was rough going, to say the least. The physicians thought we were insurance. They didn't know what we were. It was new. They didn't want their name or their prices listed. It was one obstacle after the next.

Dennis Scott

I understand that his name starts with D and that he wears No. 3 but he needs to get a new nickname.

Paul Sarbanes

These are the very names that were provided to Mr. Bolton, is that correct?

Michael Chabon

the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.

Marvin Kalb

But if they're as powerful as you say they are, shouldn't you name them?

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Harrison Ford

In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

Hannah More

Names govern the world.

Greg Ginn

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Evan Esar

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Eugene Ionesco

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Ernest Hemingway

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.