Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garth Nix

I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

George Eliot

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Fergie

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

Felix Klein

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Felix Baumgartner

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

Fatima Siad

I want to make a name for myself.

Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

Famke Janssen

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Ezra Taft Benson

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Eve Hewson

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

Eve Best

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

Francis Chan

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

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.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

She has the gift of accepting her life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

You remind me of everything that followed.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Graham Chapman

I am known by many names, but you may call me...Tim.

Halle Berry

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Iggy Azalea

I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

Howie Mandel

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

Howard Zinn

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Hosea Ballou

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Horace

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Hannah Arendt

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Gena Showalter

Who is here with you?” “Don’t stop,” she begged. “Who is here with you?” he repeated, harshly this time. “You are.” “What is my name?” “Reyes

Gary North

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.