Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Moore

What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Ansel Elgort

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

Andrew Carnegie

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

Amy Carmichael

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

Amos Bronson Alcott

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

Alvin Martin

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

Anthony de Mello

Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Anne Rice

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Andy Kindler

I noticed when I was driving around that they changed the name of the Interborough Parkway to the Jackie Robinson Parkway. And the Interborough family is very upset about this...

Ambrose Bierce

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Ambrose Bierce

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

Ambrose Bierce

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

Ambrose Bierce

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Ambrose Bierce

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Anthony Kiedis

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

Alice Sebold

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Alice Sebold

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

Alice Hoffman

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

Alice Cooper

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

Alexander Pope

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

Debby Ryan

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

E. Howard Hunt

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

E. G. Marshall

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

E. O. Wilson

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

E. O. Wilson

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

Douglas Coupland

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Donald Trump

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

Dr. John

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

Douglas William Jerrold

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.