Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Chord Overstreet

I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name,

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Audre Lorde

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Frederic Bastiat

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

Derek Jeter

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Denis Waitley

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

Dee Snider

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody

Deb Caletti

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Kurt Vonnegut

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Kurt Vonnegut

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.