Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Zora Neale Hurston

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Zach Galifianakis

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Zach Galifianakis

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

Zak Orth

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

Zach Braff

Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

Zach Braff

Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.

Yves Klein

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Yves Saint Laurent

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

William Godwin

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

William Gurnall

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

William Barclay

Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.

Waylon Jennings

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

Voltaire

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Voltaire

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

Voltaire

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Walter White

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

Walter Scott

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

Walter Scott

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Treat Williams

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

Torquato Tasso

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Topher Grace

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

Veronica Roth

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

Veronica Roth

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

Vince Flynn

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Robert G. Allen

You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere

Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Samuel Johnson

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Samuel Johnson

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Samuel Johnson

I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.

Samuel Johnson

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.