Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Judith Jamison

Excellence is the name of the game...

Josh Hopkins

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

Joseph Conrad

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

Kate Millett

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Kate Moss

Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

Kary Mullis

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

Leonard Cohen

You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Lauren Bacall

Naïveté, thy name is me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

Karl Popper

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Julie Gonzalo

I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.

Julie Garwood

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

Joseph Priestley

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Ouida

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Oscar Wilde

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Kathryn Stockett

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Kandyse McClure

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

Kanye West

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

June Jordan

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

June Jordan

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

Paul Tillich

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Paul Tillich

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Paul Kagame

I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

Paul Davies

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.