Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Hawk

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

Tony Goldwyn

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

Steve Sabol

You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.

Steve Guttenberg

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

Vachel Lindsay

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Utah Phillips

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Usher

Down time is not the name of the game.

V. S. Naipaul

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

Susanna Clarke

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

Suzanne Collins

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

Suzanne Collins

Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

Suzanne Collins

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

Scott Westerfeld

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Steven Cojocaru

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

Sun Ra

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

Steven Van Zandt

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.