Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Mac

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Audre Lorde

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Frederic Bastiat

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

Derek Jeter

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Denis Waitley

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

Dee Snider

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody

Deb Caletti

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Dick Cavett

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Diana Krall

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

Diana Gabaldon

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

Dennis Nilsen

I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it?

Deepak Chopra

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

Elizabeth Arden

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Edouard Manet

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Cedric the Entertainer

Well, you know, my name is Ced and I kinda consider myself an entertainer. Hey that ain't bad yeah, Cedric the Entertainer.

Cat Deeley

I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.

Cat Deeley

My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma Hill designs, I normally want in copious amounts! This is an easy, breezy, Grace Kelly in High Society piece. A timeless dress, just perfect!

Carolyn Murphy

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

Carol Kane

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.