Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Aumann

Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

Robert Barry

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

Robert Anton Wilson

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Rob Pike

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Rickey Henderson

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

Richard Louv

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Richard Louv

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Richard Rossi

I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

Ricardo Sanchez

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

Reba McEntire

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

Robert De Niro

As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.

Robert Cailliau

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Richard Prince

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

Richard Rohr

What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship...

Richard Rohr

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Richard Corliss

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

Tori Amos

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

Vance Havner

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

Valentino Rossi

I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components

Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Richard Dawkins

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Robert E. Lee

The devil's name is dullness.

Rob Zombie

There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.

Rob Corddry

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.