Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

N. Scott Momaday

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

N. Scott Momaday

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

Mort Walker

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

Miranda Otto

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

Mireille Enos

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I'm not even a household name in my own household

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

These are new names that will be stepping into different roles.

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Missi Pyle

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

Philip Sidney

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Petra Kelly

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Peter Drucker

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peg Bracken

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Martin Scorsese

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

Maria Sharapova

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Megan Fox

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

Meat Loaf

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Max Roach

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

Max Lucado

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

Maurice Sendak

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

Max Irons

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

Maureen Johnson

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

Matthew Sweet

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Matthew Simpson

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

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

The most important thing is to get quality names and go from there.

Kate Warne

There's a lot of strength in technology names that are high-quality companies, particularly those related to optical networking,

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.

Sam Harris

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.