Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicki Minaj

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Matt Czuchry

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

Mark Twain

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Mark Twain

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Mark Twain

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Muddy Waters

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

Mr. T

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

Mr. T

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Mr. T

Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

Mr. T

Table the label and wear your own name.

Muhammad Ali

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

Muhammad Ali

So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

Muhammad Ali

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form

Muhammad Ali

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Muhammad Ali

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

Mikhail Bakunin

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

Margot Asquith

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Miguel de Unamuno

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

Mickey Mantle

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

Mickey Mantle

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Nicholas D. Kristof

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

Neil Armstrong

Lindsay Lohan isn't a DJ, but because of her celebrity power she can do a gig somewhere, put her name on a flyer, and she'll probably bring in more people and make more money than I ever will.

Nathan Myhrvold

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

Naima Adedapo

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Miroslav Volf

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

Mike Pompeo

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

R. C. Sproul

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Psy

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

Pranab Mukherjee

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Judd Apatow

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.