Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Luntz

What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165

Maggie Stiefvater

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.' 'Blair?' 'Blue.' 'Blaize?' Blue sighed. 'Jane

Maggie Stiefvater

names are a way to keep people in your mind

Macklemore

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

Haruki Murakami

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

Hans Rosling

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

Gustave Flaubert

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Gray Davis

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

Greg Behrendt

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Louis Pasteur

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

Lord Byron

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Acton

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

John Christopher

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

John Brunner

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

M. Scott Peck

I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

Luther Allison

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

Louise Brooks

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

John Cena

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.

John Bonham

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

Matt Smith

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

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.