Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hector Hugh Munro

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Pablo Schreiber

Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.

Pablo Neruda

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

Pablo Neruda

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

Plautus

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

Plato

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Plato

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Philip Treacy

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

Philip Zimbardo

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Mary E. Pearson

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Martin Scorsese

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Lee Ann Womack

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

LeBron James

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

Laverne Cox

You need names to get the movie made.

Lance Armstrong

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

Laini Taylor

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

Johnny Depp

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

John Travolta

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

John Stuart Mill

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

John Shelby Spong

The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.

John Rawls

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

James Howe

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

James Joyce

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Laurence J. Peter

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Laurence Sterne

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

Larry Holmes

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Larry Holmes

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

Libba Bray

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

Leslie Stephen

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

Lester Bowie

A chord is just the name of a sound.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people