Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikita Khrushchev

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nicolas Chamfort

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Nicolas Chamfort

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Nicolas Chamfort

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Nicolas Cage

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Nicki Minaj

He toss my salad like his name Romaine

Nolan Ryan

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

Nora Roberts

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

Nikolai Berdyaev

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Nicole Krauss

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

N. Scott Momaday

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

N. Scott Momaday

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

Mort Walker

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

Miranda Otto

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

Mireille Enos

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I'm not even a household name in my own household

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

These are new names that will be stepping into different roles.

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Missi Pyle

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

Philip Sidney

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Petra Kelly

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Peter Drucker

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peg Bracken

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Martin Scorsese

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

Maria Sharapova

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Megan Fox

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

Meat Loaf

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Max Roach

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

Max Lucado

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

Maurice Sendak

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

Max Irons

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.