Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.

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!

Douglas Coupland

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Donald Trump

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Adam Sandler

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Adam Carolla

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

Abraham Lincoln

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

Allegra Versace

I don't tell many people my last name.

Ann Brashares

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

Ann Coulter

Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama.

Ann Coulter

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Andrzej Wajda

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Andy Cohen

Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself...

Alex Rodriguez

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Aleister Crowley

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

Aleister Crowley

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

Aleister Crowley

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

Alex Ferguson

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

Aldrich Ames

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Aldrich Ames

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

Aldo Leopold

The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

Aldous Huxley

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Aldous Huxley

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.