Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenna McCarthy

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Jean Henri Fabre

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

Gloria Gaither

Satan labels you. God names you.

Gloria Allred

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

GG Allin

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

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.

Frank Zappa

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Miguel de Unamuno

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

Mickey Mantle

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

Mickey Mantle

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Nicholas D. Kristof

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

Neil Armstrong

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

Nathan Myhrvold

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

Naima Adedapo

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Miroslav Volf

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

Mike Pompeo

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

R. C. Sproul

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Psy

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

Pranab Mukherjee

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Pierre Salinger

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

Nelson Mandela

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

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.