Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Affleck

I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.

Ben Affleck

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

Barbra Streisand

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

Barbra Streisand

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Barbra Streisand

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

Avril Lavigne

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

Arthur Conan Doyle

You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Azealia Banks

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

Diana Wynne Jones

All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.

Diana Wynne Jones

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

Desiderius Erasmus

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

Desiderius Erasmus

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Demian Bichir

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

Demi Lovato

Don't judge me. You know my name, but not my story.

Demetri Martin

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

Demetri Martin

A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

Daniel Handler

What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

Dana Gioia

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Dana Gioia

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

Craig Kilborn

Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.

Craig Ferguson

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

Elizabeth Scott

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember

Elizabeth Scott

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.

Elizabeth Scott

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

Elizabeth I

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Elias Canetti

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

Eli Roth

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

B. F. Skinner

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.