Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heidi Klum

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

Ralph Chaplin

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Ralph Abernathy

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

Rachel Weisz

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Shay Mitchell

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Michelle Obama

Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

Michael Weatherly

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

Michael Pena

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Michael Phelps

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

Neil Diamond

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Neil Gaiman

Names come and names go.

Neil Gaiman

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

Neil Gaiman

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

John Wayne

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

John Stott

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

John Simon

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

John Perry Barlow

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

John Piper

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

John Piper

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

John Piper

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Martin Luther

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

Martin Luther

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

Marilu Henner

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.