Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

John Green

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

John Green

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

Patti Smith

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

P. T. Barnum

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

P. G. Wodehouse

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P. G. Wodehouse

I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

P. G. Wodehouse

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

Ovid

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

Mehmet Oz

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Michel de Montaigne

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Michel de Montaigne

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

Michael Keaton

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Mark Twain

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

Mark Twain

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Mark Twain

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

Mario Andretti

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

Marilyn Manson

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Freddy Adu

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

Christopher Eccleston

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Christian Lacroix

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Chris Rock

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

Gerard Way

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random.

Gerard Way

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

George Santayana

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

George Santayana

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Neal Shusterman

I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad. Left frontal lobe. I...I...I don't feel so good. Left occipital lobe. I... don't remember where...Left parietal lobe. I...I...I can't remember my name,but...but...Right temporal...but I'm still here. Right frontal. I'm still here... Right occipital.I'm still...Right parietal. I'm...Cerebellum. I'm...Thalamus. I...Hypothalamus. I...Hippocampus...Medulla........................

Natasha Trethewey

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

Morihei Ueshiba

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.