Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Frum

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

David Foster Wallace

This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Dylan Thomas

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Douglas Adams

And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Douglas Adams

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

Donald Knuth

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Dale Carnegie

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Cristela Alonzo

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

Creed Bratton

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

Coolio

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

Claude Debussy

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Daniel Craig

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

Damien Hirst

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Count Basie

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Cory Doctorow

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

Clive Barker

My feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.

Clive Barker

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Andrew O'Hagan

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Angel Haze

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

Anais Nin

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees.

Amanda Lindhout

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Ann Beattie

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Anita Roddick

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

Chuck Palahniuk

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Chuck Palahniuk

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Chuck Palahniuk

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Chuck Close

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

Christopher Paolini

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Christopher Paolini

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]