Famous Quotes & Sayings

John D. Rockefeller

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

Lisa Kleypas

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

Linus Torvalds

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

Linda Perry

Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.

Linda Ronstadt

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

Linda Howard

I’m Sam Donovan.” “I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. I’m Jaine Bright.” “I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name.” Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?

Linda Chavez

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Lil Wayne

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard

Peter Cameron

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

Pete Postlethwaite

I couldnt imagine living my life with another name.

Philip Pullman

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

Joseph Estrada

Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

LaToya Jackson

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Theophilus London

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

Lady Gaga

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

Karl Popper

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Peter Greenaway

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Lloyd Alexander

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Lynne Truss

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]

Jon Stewart

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

Kate Adie

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Lyn Nofziger

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

Lynda Barry

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Lori Loughlin

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Lord Byron

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.

Maimonides

Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion