Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Joni Mitchell

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

Kevin Rudd

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Khalil Gibran

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Jaclyn Smith

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Hector Hugh Munro

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

James Joyce

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Laurence J. Peter

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Laurence Sterne

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

Larry Holmes

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Larry Holmes

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

Libba Bray

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

Leslie Stephen

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

Lester Bowie

A chord is just the name of a sound.

John Yoo

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

John Christopher

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

Cassandra Clare

No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.

Caroline Lawrence

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be Stands in Confusion.

Karl Marx

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Muhammad Ali

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Paul Reubens

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

L. Neil Smith

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Eli Roth

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Terry Pratchett

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Neil LaBute

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Marc Maron

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Laurell K. Hamilton

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

Lil Wayne

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard