Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Michelle Obama

Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

Michael Weatherly

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

Michael Pena

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Michael Phelps

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

Sherman Alexie

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Nelson DeMille

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

Nelly

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Rachel Nichols

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

Rachel Maddow

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

Niall Ferguson

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

Niall Ferguson

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Newt Gingrich

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Noah Webster

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Noam Chomsky

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

John Ashbery

How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

Jodi Picoult

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

John Green

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

John Green

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

John Green

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

Patti Smith

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

P. T. Barnum

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Ted Nugent

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Theodore Tilton

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

Terry McMillan

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Terry Pratchett

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Marcus Buckingham

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.