Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Pam Grier

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

Justin Amash

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

Julia Phillips

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Julia Quinn

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

Klaus Fuchs

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Schulze

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

Knut Hamsun

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

Moliere

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Mike Thompson

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

Nate Silver

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

Murray Kempton

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

Kate DiCamillo

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

Kim Clijsters

When I marry my name will not change.

Kim Harrison

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

Kevin O'Leary

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Ken Venturi

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

Mark Twain

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Mark Twain

Names are not always what they seem.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter ...

Martin Freeman

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Niklaus Wirth

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.

Niecy Nash

I didn't get into this business for other people to know my name.

Nicole Krauss

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

Nicole Krauss

I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

Nicky Hilton

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

Nicki Minaj

I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.