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.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Ansel Elgort

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

Anthony de Mello

Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

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.

Daniel Johnston

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

David Foster Wallace

This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

David Platt

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

Corey Feldman

I literally was famous before I knew my own name,

Ambrose Bierce

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

Ambrose Bierce

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

Alice Hoffman

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

Alice Cooper

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

Albert Claude

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Cillian Murphy

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

Angela Carter

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

Richard E. Grant

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

Renee Olstead

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Rene Magritte

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Rene Magritte

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

Rene Magritte

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Thomas Hood

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Timothy Leary

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

Timothy Leary

Give death a better name or die trying.

Robert McKee

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Robert Aumann

Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

Robert Barry

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

Robert Anton Wilson

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Rob Pike

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Rickey Henderson

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.