Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gary Hamel

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

Gary Hamel

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Jessica Simpson

I definitely don't Google my name.

Jerry Brown

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Jenna McCarthy

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Jean Henri Fabre

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

Gloria Gaither

Satan labels you. God names you.

Gloria Allred

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

GG Allin

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jess Margera

If you hire a producer with a big name, you know he's kinda got his way of doing everything and then you kinda sound like, you know...

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.

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.

Francis Quarles

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Ian Fleming

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

Hugh Hefner

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Jackman

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Horace

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