Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephanie Seymour

If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.

Starhawk

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

Starhawk

To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.

Stan Lee

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Stephenie Meyer

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

Stephenie Meyer

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers

Stephen Amell

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

Stephen Chbosky

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

Stephen Colbert

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.

Stephen Colbert

And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Thomas Hobbes

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight...

Thomas Love Peacock

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Jefferson

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Wycherley

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

William James

The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

William Gilbert

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

Will Cuppy

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

William Ellery Channing

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Willard Wigan

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.