Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Woodrow Wilson

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

Woodrow Wilson

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Wladimir Klitschko

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Wiz Khalifa

Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I'm rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you're name is. If you don't, you're nameless.

Wiz Khalifa

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

Wiz Khalifa

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

Wilma Mankiller

My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

Will Rogers

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

Will Rogers

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

Wes Borland

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

W. Averell Harriman

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. C. Fields

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Zora Neale Hurston

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Zach Galifianakis

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Zach Galifianakis

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

Zak Orth

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

Zach Braff

Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

Zach Braff

Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.

Yves Klein

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Yves Saint Laurent

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

William Harvey

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

William Hazlitt

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

William Hazlitt

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

William Hazlitt

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce

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…