Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Oyeyemi

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

Henry Ward Beecher

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

Henry Clay

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.

Helen Vendler

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

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.

Narendra Modi

The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

Narendra Modi

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - ­which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Orson Welles

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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...

Merle Haggard

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Meles Zenawi

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Masashi Kishimoto

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.

Michael Grant

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

Michel Foucault

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Michael Jai White

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Ted Nugent

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Theodore Tilton

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

Manny Pacquiao

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.

Malin Akerman

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'