Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Orson Welles

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

Octavio Paz

...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...

Merle Haggard

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Meles Zenawi

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Masashi Kishimoto

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.

Michael Grant

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

Michel Foucault

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Michael Jai White

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Ted Nugent

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Theodore Tilton

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

Manny Pacquiao

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.

Malin Akerman

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

Mahatma Gandhi

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Mahatma Gandhi

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

John Adams

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

John Adams

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Jaclyn Smith

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Hartley Coleridge

Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

Louise Erdrich

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

James Madison

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....

Joe Paterno

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Joe Gold

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

Joan Jett

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

Jimmie Johnson

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Jimi Hendrix

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

Emma Goldman

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Emilio Estevez

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.