Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.

Sandra Bernhard

People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Samuel Johnson

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Robert Aumann

Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

Robert Barry

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

Robert Anton Wilson

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Rob Pike

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Rickey Henderson

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

Richard Louv

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Richard Louv

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Richard Rossi

I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

Ricardo Sanchez

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

Reba McEntire

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

Robert De Niro

As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.

Robert Cailliau

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Richard Prince

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

Richard Rohr

What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship...

Richard Rohr

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Richard Corliss

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

Tori Amos

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

Vance Havner

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

Valentino Rossi

I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components

Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Richard Dawkins

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Treat Williams

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

Torquato Tasso

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Topher Grace

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

Tony Snow

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

Veronica Roth

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

Veronica Roth

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.