Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louisa May Alcott

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

John Green

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

John Glenn

We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

John Fogerty

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

John Flanagan

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!

Jonathan Lethem

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Ames

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

Jon Stewart

Never name it after yourself. Maybe we'll throw a with in there. That seems to work. Like Late Show With David Letterman.

Jon Stewart

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

Jon McGregor

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

Jon Postel

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

Jon Postel

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

John le Carre

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God,

Jimmy Choo

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Jim Ross

Just like Brad Pitt and what's her name!

Jim Lehrer

I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

Joan Van Ark

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

Jim Rohn

Results, are the name of the game...

George M. Cohan

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

George M. Cohan

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

George Lucas

On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.’

Elvis Presley

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

Elvis Presley

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

John Cornyn

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

John Bunyan

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

John Bunyan

The name of the Slough was Despond.

Joe Abercrombie

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

John Hancock

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

John Guare

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

John Fuller

It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.