Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Muhammad Ali

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

L'Wren Scott

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

Lucretius

And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.

Louis Kronenberger

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

Mehmet Oz

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Michel de Montaigne

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Michel de Montaigne

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

Michael Keaton

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Mark Twain

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

Mark Twain

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Mark Twain

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

Mikhail Bakunin

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

Margot Asquith

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Miguel de Unamuno

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

Mickey Mantle

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

Mickey Mantle

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Nicholas D. Kristof

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

Neil Armstrong

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

Nathan Myhrvold

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

Naima Adedapo

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Miroslav Volf

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

Mike Pompeo

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

R. C. Sproul

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Psy

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

Pranab Mukherjee

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Pierre Salinger

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.