Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Stephenie Meyer

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Marc Ostrofsky

In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

Marc Jacobs

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

Marc Maron

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Thomas A. Edison

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Simon Bolivar

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty

Sidney Crosby

I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Neil Patrick Harris

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

Tamar Braxton

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.

Tallulah Bankhead

... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Talib Kweli

Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

Svetlana Kuznetsova

I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

Swizz Beatz

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Thorstein Veblen

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Ringo Starr

Drumming is my middle name.

Thomas Szasz

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Thomas Szasz

The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

Steven Wright

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Steven Rattner

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

Steven Spielberg

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Richard Cobden

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Red Buttons

Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Robert Brustein

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

Robert Bridges

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

Toni Morrison

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.