Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Pirsig

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Robert Fisk

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Walt Frazier

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

Wally Schirra

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

Walt Whitman

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

Tom Brown, Jr.

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brady

I certainly want a name that I can pronounce!

Tim Lincecum

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

Sam Ewing

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

Sam Harris

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

S. E. Hinton

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

S. E. Hinton

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

Ronald Reagan

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Rumi

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Roland Barthes

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

Susan George

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Thomas A. Edison

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Simon Bolivar

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty

Sidney Crosby

I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Neil Patrick Harris

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

Tamar Braxton

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.

Tallulah Bankhead

... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Talib Kweli

Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

Swizz Beatz

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Simone de Beauvoir

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

Simon Sinek

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

Rick Riordan

Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

Rick Riordan

He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done.