Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."

Carly Fiorina

There are kind of four people up at the top, [Donald] Trump,[Marco] Rubio,[Ted] Cruz,[Ben] Carson, and then there's me and about three governors. I'm perfectly happy with that position right now, honestly, because when I started this race, I was 17 out of 16. The pollsters didn't even ask my name, because so few people knew me.

Carlos Alazraqui

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

Bruno Mars

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

Jason Isaacs

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

Janet Fitch

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

Janet Evanovich

Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

Ethan Zuckerman

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'

Ernest Renan

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Borgnine

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

Frederic Morton

Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Freddy Adu

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

Christopher Eccleston

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Christian Lacroix

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Chris Rock

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

Gerard Way

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random.

Gerard Way

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

Greta Van Susteren

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

Glen Cook

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Gerd von Rundstedt

Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.

Gerard Butler

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

Georgette Heyer

What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Horace

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Herman Cain

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

Herman Melville

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Herb Brooks

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Henry David Thoreau

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Henry David Thoreau

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

Henry David Thoreau

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.