Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynda Barry

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Lori Loughlin

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Lord Byron

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.

Maimonides

Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Mahatma Gandhi

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

Julie Garwood

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

Joseph Priestley

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Ouida

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Oscar Wilde

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Kathryn Stockett

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Kandyse McClure

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

Kanye West

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

June Jordan

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

June Jordan

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

Paul Tillich

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Paul Tillich

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Paul Tillich

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

Paul Kagame

I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

Paul Davies

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

Patrick Stewart

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

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