Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Steinem

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Giorgio Moroder

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

Geraldine Ferraro

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Harry S Truman

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

J. L. Austin

But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

J. K. Rowling

And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

J. K. Rowling

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

J. K. Rowling

Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —

J. K. Rowling

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Gary Hamel

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

Gary Hamel

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Jessica Simpson

I definitely don't Google my name.

Jerry Brown

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Jenna McCarthy

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Dave Wannstedt

I could've named several others who were deserving.

I am very frustrated, but I am hopeful. I think that once our names get out there and people realize what we do, then they will come.

Jamie Carragher

He's one of the first names on the team-sheet at the moment,

He's got a lot of work to do, obviously, to get his name out there. He's got a long way to go.

David Gergen

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

Marvin Kalb

I could name names, and then you could tell me if I'm wrong, ... Are you talking about someone like Senator Frist?

Paul Haggis

I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.

We are named one of the Top 10 tourist trains in the country.

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

David Letterman

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

David Gemmell

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

David Eagleman

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David Eagleman

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David O. Russell

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

David O. Russell

Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

Daniel Alarcon

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.