Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Morrison

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Tom T. Hall

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom Stoppard

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Raymond Williams

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

Victor Hugo

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

Veronica Roth

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

Richard Bach

A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.

Robert Fulghum

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Robert Fulghum

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Rita Dove

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Richard Madden

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.

Richard E. Grant

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

Renee Olstead

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Rene Magritte

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Rene Magritte

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

Rene Magritte

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Thomas Hood

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Timothy Leary

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

Timothy Leary

Give death a better name or die trying.

Rupert Grint

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

Rumi

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

Rumi

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

Rumi

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

Rumi

You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.

Rumi

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Tom Robbins

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Lantos

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Tom Ellis

If I'm going to put my name to something and commit to something that's going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what's the point?

Tom G. Palmer

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom Felton

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.