Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

William James

The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Joseph Addison

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Kesha

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

Ellen Key

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Natasha Lyonne

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

Patrick O'Brian

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Patrick Rothfuss

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Patty Griffin

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Bob Marley

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Ryne Sandberg

With those numbers that he has, those plateaus, that's Hall of Fame right there. As far as I'm concerned, he's in on the first ballot.

Marilyn Monroe

People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothing.