Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

Alexander Pope

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

Debby Ryan

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

E. Howard Hunt

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

E. G. Marshall

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

E. O. Wilson

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

E. O. Wilson

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Dylan Thomas

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Douglas Adams

And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Dr. John

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

Douglas William Jerrold

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Dr. Seuss

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Dorothy Day

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Dorothy Day

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Colleen McCullough

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

Dodie Smith

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Deval Patrick

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

Desmond Tutu

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Delia Smith

My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.

Amber Benson

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

Amber Heard

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

Chuck Palahniuk

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Chuck Palahniuk

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Chuck Palahniuk

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Chuck Close

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

Christopher Paolini

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Christopher Paolini

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Christopher Moore

What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Ansel Elgort

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

Andrew Carnegie

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity