Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

George W. Bush

I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.

George W. Bush

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George Smoot

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

George R. R. Martin

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.

George R. R. Martin

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

George R. R. Martin

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

George R. R. Martin

I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

George R. R. Martin

Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and call me Your Grace." She shrieked as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap. "You have juice on your face, Your Grace ," Arya said.

Hunter S. Thompson

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Howard Rheingold

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Howard Stern

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

Howard Fineman

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It`s time for a new theory.

Honore de Balzac

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore de Balzac

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Ice T

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

Ice T

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

Ice Cube

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

He potentially could be a witness, those types of things, so we can't really name him.

GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.

Isaac Marion

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.

Isaac Asimov

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Irene Khan

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Elton John

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Elle Fanning

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Francis Quarles

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Ian Fleming

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

Hugh Hefner

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Jackman

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Horace

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.