Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Bateson

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

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.

Marvin Kalb

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

They've been very strong. They've been aggressive. I think they know they have to make a name for themselves, and they don't have a lot of time to do it.

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.

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

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.

Name a country, and I have probably been there.

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.

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.

It was the number one priority to keep his name at this place.

It was tough to sell something with the Merrill Lynch name on it.

Emma Thompson

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

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.

Robert G. Allen

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

The sisters and others, I have their names. But I have a Kristin and a Kirsten, those two names right there really get me.

Karl Malone

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Karl Marx

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Jules Verne

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Judith Butler

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jess Margera

If you hire a producer with a big name, you know he's kinda got his way of doing everything and then you kinda sound like, you know...

Jenny Lawson

One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days.

Jenny McCarthy

The first time I punched in my name and saw how many sites there were, I thought, that's scary. I got too involved where I got worried and panicked and tried to stop it. But you know what, if I just let it go and not worry about it, then it will be fine. Because it's all about how it makes me feel and I was letting it get to me.

Jenifer Lewis

Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.

Glenn Close

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.