Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

Jean Anouilh

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Jay Leno

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.

Jay Leno

There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

Jay Leno

Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute.

Jay Leno

Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.

Jay Leno

This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."

Murray Gell-Mann

The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

Mickey Rourke

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

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.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

Klaus Fuchs

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Schulze

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

Knut Hamsun

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

Moliere

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Mike Thompson

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

Gary Hamel

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

Gary Hamel

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Jessica Simpson

I definitely don't Google my name.

Jerry Brown

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

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.