Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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