Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Feinstein

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Fassbender

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

Michael Biehn

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Michael Ondaatje

A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

Michael Ondaatje

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

Michael Irvin

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.

Ray Bradbury

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Ray Bradbury

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

James F. Cooper

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

James F. Cooper

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

James Cook

Government regulators are another name for police.

Henry Rollins

Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

Henry A. Kissinger

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

Heather Mills

I have to clear my name.

Hector Hugh Munro

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Pablo Schreiber

Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.

Pablo Neruda

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

Pablo Neruda

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

Plautus

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

Plato

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Plato

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Philip Treacy

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

Philip Zimbardo

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Mary E. Pearson

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Martin Scorsese

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Lee Ann Womack

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

LeBron James

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

Laverne Cox

You need names to get the movie made.

Lance Armstrong

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

Laini Taylor

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough