Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libba Bray

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

Leslie Stephen

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

Lester Bowie

A chord is just the name of a sound.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Friedrich Schiller

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Louise Erdrich

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Henry Rollins

Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

Henry A. Kissinger

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

Heather Mills

I have to clear my name.

Hector Hugh Munro

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Manny Pacquiao

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.

Malin Akerman

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

Mahatma Gandhi

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Mahatma Gandhi

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

John Adams

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

John Adams

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Jaclyn Smith

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Hartley Coleridge

Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

James F. Cooper

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

James F. Cooper

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

James Cook

Government regulators are another name for police.

Friedrich Schiller

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

George Friedman

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.

George Foreman

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

Jon Ronson

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Jon Meacham

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Jon Landau

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

Joko Beck

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

John Yoo

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.