Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Henry David Thoreau

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

Henry David Thoreau

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Henry David Thoreau

At present our only true names are nicknames.

Jerry Falwell

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Jennifer Ellison

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jerry Spinelli

As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

Jesse Schell

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Jesse Jackson

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.

Jennifer Lawrence

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

Jennifer Lopez

A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.

Jeff Gannon

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jean Giraudoux

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Jackie Mason

The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts.

Christopher Lasch

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Christopher Hitchens

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

Christopher Hitchens

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

Gaston Bachelard

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

Gaston Bachelard

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

Frederic Morton

Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Frank Zappa

You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God....

Jeanette Winterson

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

Jennifer Weiner

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name...

Jef Raskin

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Jeaniene Frost

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

Jeaniene Frost

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

Jeremy Irvine

All actors have to change their name.

Georges Bataille

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

George Whitefield

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

George Saintsbury

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.