Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Joanna Trollope

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

Joaquin Phoenix

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

Joe Gold

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

Joan Jett

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

Jimmie Johnson

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Jimi Hendrix

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

Emma Goldman

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Emilio Estevez

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

Heidi Klum

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

John Hancock

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

John Guare

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

Ayn Rand

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Ayn Rand

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Bertrand Russell

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Benjamin Cardozo

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Dieter Rams

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

Eduard Buchner

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

A number of them don't even have names yet.

Rajnath Singh

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

All of a sudden, you turn your back and the old names are going up.

Hugh Johnson

You really want to stay with the large-cap (stocks), ... the big names in technology.

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

Gerard Way

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random.

Gerard Way

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

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.

Glen Cook

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Gerd von Rundstedt

Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.