Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Butler

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

Georgette Heyer

What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Horace

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Herman Cain

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

Herman Melville

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Herb Brooks

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Henry David Thoreau

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Henry David Thoreau

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

Henry David Thoreau

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Henry David Thoreau

At present our only true names are nicknames.

Jerry Falwell

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Eugene Ionesco

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Ernest Hemingway

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Evita Peron

I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

Erwin McManus

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

Erma Bombeck

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

Erma Bombeck

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

Erin Hunter

My name is Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish I was one!

Florence Welch

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

Florence Welch

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

Florence Nightingale

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

Flannery O'Connor

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Fetty Wap

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

Catharine MacKinnon

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

Cat Stevens

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

Cassandra Clare

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

George Eliot

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Gore Vidal

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Gianni Versace

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

Gerhard Richter

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

Harvey Milk

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.