Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Twain

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Mark Twain

Names are not always what they seem.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter ...

Martin Freeman

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Niklaus Wirth

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.

Niecy Nash

I didn't get into this business for other people to know my name.

Nicole Krauss

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

Nicole Krauss

I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

Nicky Hilton

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

Nicki Minaj

I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

Nicki Minaj

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Matt Czuchry

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

Mark Twain

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Mark Twain

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Mark Twain

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P. G. Wodehouse

I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

P. G. Wodehouse

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

Ovid

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

Mehmet Oz

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Michel de Montaigne

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Michel de Montaigne

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

Michael Keaton

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Mark Twain

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes