Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

Harold B. Lee

For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory

Harold Bloom

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Jim Butcher

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Jessi Colter

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

Jesse Ventura

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

Jean Anouilh

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Jay Leno

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.

Jay Leno

There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

Jay Leno

Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute.

Jay Leno

Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.

Jay Leno

This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."

Carly Fiorina

There are kind of four people up at the top, [Donald] Trump,[Marco] Rubio,[Ted] Cruz,[Ben] Carson, and then there's me and about three governors. I'm perfectly happy with that position right now, honestly, because when I started this race, I was 17 out of 16. The pollsters didn't even ask my name, because so few people knew me.

Carlos Alazraqui

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

Bruno Mars

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

Klaus Fuchs

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Schulze

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

Knut Hamsun

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

Moliere

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Mike Thompson

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

Nate Silver

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

Murray Kempton

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

Kate DiCamillo

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

Kim Clijsters

When I marry my name will not change.

Kim Harrison

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

Kevin O'Leary

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Ken Venturi

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

Ice T

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

Ice T

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

Ice Cube

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

Iris Murdoch

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Imogen Poots

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.