Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Chris Burke

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Chloe Grace Moretz

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Eddie Murphy

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

David Brinkley

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.