Famous Quotes & Sayings

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)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uh…I don’t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite than calling her ‘hey, you, ancient chick.’ (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.

John Patrick Shanley

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

John Milton

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

John Milton

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

John Milton

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Norma McCorvey

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

Nina Conti

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.

Misha Collins

I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

Mike Watt

I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.

Miguel de Cervantes

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Neil Diamond

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Neil Gaiman

Names come and names go.

Neil Gaiman

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

Neil Gaiman

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

John Wayne

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

John Stott

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

John Simon

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

Shawn Ryan

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

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