Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

Homer

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I am very frustrated, but I am hopeful. I think that once our names get out there and people realize what we do, then they will come.

Jamie Carragher

He's one of the first names on the team-sheet at the moment,

Sibel Edmonds

However, the names of people from other countries, and semi-legit organizations from other countries, to this day, have not been made public.

Hunter S. Thompson

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Howard Rheingold

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Howard Stern

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

Howard Fineman

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It`s time for a new theory.

Honore de Balzac

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore de Balzac

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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.

Harold Ramis

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

James Brown

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

Jakob Dylan

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Jalen Rose

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

Jacques Chirac

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

Jacques Derrida

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

Isaac Marion

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.

Isaac Asimov

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Irene Khan

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Elton John

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Elle Fanning

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Hopefully, one year, we will not have to read any more names at this event.

Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Pam Grier

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

Justin Amash

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

Julia Phillips

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Julia Quinn

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.