Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Dorothy Day

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Colleen McCullough

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

Dodie Smith

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Deval Patrick

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

Desmond Tutu

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

David O. Russell

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

David O. Russell

Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

Daniel Alarcon

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

Danica McKellar

It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

Daisy Ashford

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Dakota Fanning

People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.

Conan O'Brien

Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'

Claude Shannon

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

Colin Angle

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

Colin Hanks

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

Colin Farrell

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Daphne du Maurier

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Cyril Connolly

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Colonel Sanders

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

Dan Pallotta

Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

Cornelia Funke

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Cormac McCarthy

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

Davy Crockett

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

David Spade

Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

David Platt

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

David Platt

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Curtis Jackson

50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

Corey Hart

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.