Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

At present our only true names are nicknames.

Jerry Falwell

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Jennifer Ellison

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Graham Chapman

I am known by many names, but you may call me...Tim.

Halle Berry

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Iggy Azalea

I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

Howie Mandel

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

Howard Zinn

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Hosea Ballou

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Horace

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Hannah Arendt

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Gore Vidal

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Gianni Versace

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

Gerhard Richter

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

Harvey Milk

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

Harold Ramis

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

James Brown

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

Jakob Dylan

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Jalen Rose

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

Jacques Chirac

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

Jacques Derrida

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

Jean Henri Fabre

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

Gloria Gaither

Satan labels you. God names you.

Gloria Allred

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

GG Allin

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jess Margera

If you hire a producer with a big name, you know he's kinda got his way of doing everything and then you kinda sound like, you know...