Famous Quotes & Sayings

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Harrison Ford

In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

Hannah More

Names govern the world.

Greg Ginn

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Glenn Greenwald

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

Gerry Beckley

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

Harry Caray

You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.

Harold H. Greene

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Gregory Bateson

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Neil Diamond

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Neil Gaiman

Names come and names go.

Neil Gaiman

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

Neil Gaiman

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

John Wayne

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

John Stott

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

John Simon

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

John Perry Barlow

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

John Piper

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

John Piper

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

John Piper

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Martin Luther

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

Martin Luther

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

Marilu Henner

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Nick Lowe

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Nick Cave

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

Sherman Alexie

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Seth Godin

Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.

Seth Godin

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Slash

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

Slash

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

Slavoj Zizek

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.