Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kin Hubbard

We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.

Michael Feinstein

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Fassbender

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

Michael Biehn

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Michael Ondaatje

A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

Michael Ondaatje

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

Michael Irvin

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

Lisi Harrison

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Little Richard

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Paul Reubens

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Patrick Rothfuss

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

Patrick Rothfuss

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Paris Hilton

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

Paloma Picasso

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Lily Allen

You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

Lily Collins

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open

Lily Collins

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Lauren Oliver

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

Lauren Oliver

It's the way he says my name: like music.

Larry Shyatt

Don’t coach for the name on your business card

Larry the Cable Guy

I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs.

Larry Wall

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

L. Neil Smith

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Paul Celan

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

Oscar Wilde

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

L'Wren Scott

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

Lucretius

And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.

Louis Kronenberger

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.