Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

Rachel Weisz

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Shay Mitchell

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Michelle Obama

Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

Michael Weatherly

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

Michael Pena

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Michael Phelps

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

John Hancock

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

John Guare

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

John Fuller

It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

John Elway

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

John Donne

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

John Ortberg

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

John O'Donohue

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

John Millington Synge

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains

John Denham

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

John Dewey

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

John Calvin

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

John Berger

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Joel Madden

If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right

Joel Kinnaman

You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

Joan Robinson

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

Joan of Arc

In God's name let us go on bravely.

Jimmy Rushing

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Garry Shandling

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

Garrett Hardin

We see only what we have names for.

Francois Mauriac

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

George Cukor

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

George Clooney

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

Gayle King

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.