Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Lowe

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Nick Cave

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

Sherman Alexie

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Seth Godin

Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.

Seth Godin

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Slash

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

Slash

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

Slavoj Zizek

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

Slavoj Zizek

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

Sloane Crosley

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

Sinclair Lewis

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Sinclair Lewis

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Rajneesh

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Rajneesh

I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only emptiness; it is always unfulfilled. By the very nature, by its very intrinsic nature, it cannot attain to fulfillment. When you are not, fulfillment is. Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like - samadhi - the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you disappear.

Sojourner Truth

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

Sofia Vergara

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

Sofia Vergara

I love jewelry - rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, you name it.

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

Snoop Dogg

I'm a smoker, my name is Snoop Dogg, and I'm a stoner.

Socrates

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Mercedes Ruehl

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Mercedes Lackey

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

Michelle Pfeiffer

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

Michael Shannon

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

Michael Moore

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Michael Moore

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

Terry McMillan

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Terry Pratchett

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Marcus Buckingham

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

Kin Hubbard

We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.