Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sibel Edmonds

However, the names of people from other countries, and semi-legit organizations from other countries, to this day, have not been made public.

Hunter S. Thompson

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Howard Rheingold

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Howard Stern

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

Howard Fineman

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It`s time for a new theory.

Honore de Balzac

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore de Balzac

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Gerhard Richter

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

Harvey Milk

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

Harold Ramis

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

James Brown

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

Jakob Dylan

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Jalen Rose

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

Jacques Chirac

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

Jacques Derrida

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

Isaac Marion

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.

Isaac Asimov

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Irene Khan

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Elton John

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Elle Fanning

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Hopefully, one year, we will not have to read any more names at this event.

Neal Shusterman

I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad. Left frontal lobe. I...I...I don't feel so good. Left occipital lobe. I... don't remember where...Left parietal lobe. I...I...I can't remember my name,but...but...Right temporal...but I'm still here. Right frontal. I'm still here... Right occipital.I'm still...Right parietal. I'm...Cerebellum. I'm...Thalamus. I...Hypothalamus. I...Hippocampus...Medulla........................

Natasha Trethewey

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

Morihei Ueshiba

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

Morgan Freeman

Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine?

Moon Unit Zappa

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

Milan Kundera

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

Mickey Gilley

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Mickey Gilley

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Mickey Spillane

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Margaux Hemingway

My name? Of course it helps. If youve got it, use it. Im proud of it, for sure.