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.

Rajnath Singh

At the moment, two-three names are under consideration.

Bernie Sanders

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

Emma Thompson

I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash,

Paul Sarbanes

These are the very names that were provided to Mr. Bolton, is that correct?

The sisters and others, I have their names. But I have a Kristin and a Kirsten, those two names right there really get me.

Karl Malone

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Karl Marx

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Jules Verne

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Judith Butler

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

We've got a lot of big names we're talking to.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jess Margera

If you hire a producer with a big name, you know he's kinda got his way of doing everything and then you kinda sound like, you know...

Jenny Lawson

One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days.

Jenny McCarthy

The first time I punched in my name and saw how many sites there were, I thought, that's scary. I got too involved where I got worried and panicked and tried to stop it. But you know what, if I just let it go and not worry about it, then it will be fine. Because it's all about how it makes me feel and I was letting it get to me.

Jenifer Lewis

Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.

Glenn Close

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Sometimes we get vegetables we don't know the names of.

Harry Reid

That is not one of the names that I've suggested to the president,

It's kind of embarrassing that we didn't give names to all of the cheetahs, we being the FONZ.

It's ridiculous for people to say this because I don't even know the names of all the players.

Greta Van Susteren

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.