Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Richard Dawkins

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Treat Williams

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

Torquato Tasso

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Topher Grace

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

Tony Snow

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

Veronica Roth

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

Veronica Roth

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

Veronica Roth

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

Vince Flynn

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Robert G. Allen

You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere

Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Samuel Johnson

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Samuel Johnson

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Samuel Johnson

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Samuel Johnson

I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.

Samuel Johnson

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Samuel Johnson

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Sam Trammell

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Safra A. Catz

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

Saddam Hussein

We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

Ruth Negga

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Rock Hudson

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Robertson Davies

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

Robertson Davies

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Robert Penn Warren

I longed to know the world's name.

Vivienne Westwood

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Vivienne Westwood

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Vladimir Lenin

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Walter Cronkite

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Virginia Woolf

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

Weegee

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…