Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

Harvey Mackay

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Claude Shannon

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

Colin Angle

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

Colin Hanks

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

Colin Farrell

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Daphne du Maurier

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Cyril Connolly

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Colonel Sanders

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

Dan Pallotta

Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

Cornelia Funke

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Cormac McCarthy

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

Conan O'Brien

Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.

Conan O'Brien

It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads. ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'

Colin Mochrie

If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

We were working on some names right now of possible suspects.

Kurt Vonnegut

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

William Shakespeare

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.