Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corey Feldman

I literally was famous before I knew my own name,

Confucius

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Confucius

What is necessary is to rectify names.

Confucius

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Daniel Tammet

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

David Levithan

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

David Levithan

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...

David Letterman

Welcome to the program. My name is Dave Letterman, and tonight I'm giving my two-week notice.

David Letterman

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

David Letterman

John Kerry says that foreign leaders want him to be president, but that he can't name the foreign leaders. That's all right, President Bush can't name them either.

David Letterman

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

David Gemmell

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

David Eagleman

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David Eagleman

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Delia Smith

My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.

Amber Benson

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

Amber Heard

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

Anna Nicole Smith

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Angelo Dundee

What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.

Cillian Murphy

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

Alfred Adler

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Angela Carter

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

Anthony Bourdain

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Alex Jones

It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

I think it's going to be a wide-open search. I think a lot of names will pop up.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Kathryn Stockett

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

Anton LaVey

The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name

He does not recognize any of the people who have submitted their names as MDC candidates.

Meryl Streep

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.