Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine?

Moon Unit Zappa

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

Milan Kundera

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

Mickey Gilley

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Mickey Gilley

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Mickey Spillane

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Margaux Hemingway

My name? Of course it helps. If youve got it, use it. Im proud of it, for sure.

Marcel Proust

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

Jose Rizal

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

Jose Saramago

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Jose Saramago

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

Jose Saramago

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

Jose Saramago

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Jorge Luis Borges

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jonathan Zittrain

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.

Joni Mitchell

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.

Joni Mitchell

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Joni Mitchell

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Joni Mitchell

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

Kevin Rudd

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Keke Palmer

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

Kelley Armstrong

And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

Kelley Armstrong

Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole

Kay Granger

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Joanna Trollope

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

Joaquin Phoenix

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

Joaquin Phoenix

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

John C. Reilly

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

James Thurber

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

James Surowiecki

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

James Patterson

Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.