Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Mark Twain

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

Mario Andretti

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

Marilyn Manson

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Freddy Adu

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

Christopher Eccleston

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Christian Lacroix

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Chris Rock

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

Gerard Way

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random.

Gerard Way

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

George Santayana

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

George Santayana

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Neal Shusterman

I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad. Left frontal lobe. I...I...I don't feel so good. Left occipital lobe. I... don't remember where...Left parietal lobe. I...I...I can't remember my name,but...but...Right temporal...but I'm still here. Right frontal. I'm still here... Right occipital.I'm still...Right parietal. I'm...Cerebellum. I'm...Thalamus. I...Hypothalamus. I...Hippocampus...Medulla........................

Natasha Trethewey

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

Morihei Ueshiba

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

Morgan Freeman

Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine?

Moon Unit Zappa

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

Milan Kundera

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

Mickey Gilley

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Mickey Gilley

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Mickey Spillane

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Margaux Hemingway

My name? Of course it helps. If youve got it, use it. Im proud of it, for sure.

Marcel Proust

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

Jose Rizal

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

Jose Saramago

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Jose Saramago

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

Jose Saramago

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

Jose Saramago

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Jorge Luis Borges

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jonathan Zittrain

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.