Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard E. Grant

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

Renee Olstead

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Rene Magritte

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Rene Magritte

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

Rene Magritte

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Thomas Hood

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Timothy Leary

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

Timothy Leary

Give death a better name or die trying.

Robert McKee

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Walt Whitman

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

Sarah Dessen

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Sarah Dessen

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

Rosecrans Baldwin

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

Roland Barthes

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Roger Scruton

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

Robin McKinley

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

Robin McKinley

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Robert T. Bakker

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Robert Smith Surtees

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Robert Plant

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

Robert Plant

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Satoru Iwata

If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.

Sasha Grey

I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.

Sarah Waters

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

Sarah Vowell

That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

Sarah Vowell

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

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.