Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Averell Harriman

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. C. Fields

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Zora Neale Hurston

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Zach Galifianakis

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Zach Galifianakis

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

Zak Orth

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

Zach Braff

Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

Zach Braff

Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.

Yves Klein

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Yves Saint Laurent

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

William Harvey

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

William Hazlitt

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

William Hazlitt

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

William Hazlitt

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Yoko Ono

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Yann Martel

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Wyndham Lewis

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

William Makepeace Thackeray

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Zig Ziglar

I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.