Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry King

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

Lady Gaga

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

Lady Gaga

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

Leonard Bernstein

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Joseph Story

In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

Josephine Baker

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Joseph Heller

Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

Karl Popper

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Mohammed Morsi

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

Paula Patton

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

Peter Ustinov

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Peter Cameron

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

Pete Postlethwaite

I couldnt imagine living my life with another name.

Philip Pullman

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165

Maggie Stiefvater

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.' 'Blair?' 'Blue.' 'Blaize?' Blue sighed. 'Jane

Maggie Stiefvater

names are a way to keep people in your mind

Macklemore

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

Haruki Murakami

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

Hans Rosling

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

Gustave Flaubert

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Gray Davis

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

Greg Behrendt

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

John Legend

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

John Leguizamo

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.

John Lawson

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

John le Carre

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God,

Jimmy Choo

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.