Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

Robertson Davies

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Robert Penn Warren

I longed to know the world's name.

Robert M. Pirsig

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Robert Fisk

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Walt Frazier

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

Wally Schirra

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

Walt Disney

Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.

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.

Vivienne Westwood

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Vivienne Westwood

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.