Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

John Proctor

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Matt Taibbi

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

Meg Whitman

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

Meg Cabot

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

Max Stirner

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

Max Carver

The name Reflect It Back comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Matthew Perry

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Matthew McConaughey

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Marina Tsvetaeva

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Pablo Schreiber

Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.

Pablo Neruda

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

Pablo Neruda

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

Plautus

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

Plato

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Philip Treacy

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

Philip Zimbardo

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Mary E. Pearson

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Martin Scorsese

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Lee Ann Womack

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

LeBron James

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

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.

Maria Sharapova

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