Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

Robbie Williams

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

Richard Simmons

You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

Richard Simmons

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

Richard Hammond

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadnt said that.

Richard Adams

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

Richard Attenborough

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Samuel Alexander

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Tariq Ramadan

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

T. Boone Pickens

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

T. S. Eliot

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

T. S. Eliot

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

Susan Sontag

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

Susan Sontag

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Susan Sontag

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

Scott Westerfeld

they walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance"....