Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavio Paz

...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...

Norton Juster

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

Ellen G. White

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

Ellen DeGeneres

My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it...

Eric Schmidt

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.

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.

Joni Mitchell

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.

Joni Mitchell

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Joni Mitchell

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Joni Mitchell

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

Kevin Rudd

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Keke Palmer

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

Kelley Armstrong

And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

Kelley Armstrong

Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole

Kay Granger

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Kurt Angle

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, Hey, I dont mind you using it, but at least give it a name. When he hits it, the announcers just say, Well, he just hit that... thing.

Kurt Angle

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

Kurt Cobain

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

Khalil Gibran

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Jonathan Swift

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Jonathan Swift

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

Jonathan Swift

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.