Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Rumi

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Roland Barthes

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

Susan George

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Stokely Carmichael

Now you know where I got my name.

Storm Jameson

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Stephen Sondheim

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

Stephen Greenblatt

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Stephen Fry

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

Ringo Starr

Drumming is my middle name.

Thomas Szasz

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Thomas Szasz

The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

Steven Wright

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Steven Rattner

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

Steven Spielberg

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Richard Cobden

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Red Buttons

Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Robert Brustein

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

Robert Bridges

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

Toni Morrison

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

Toni Morrison

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

Toni Morrison

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

Toni Morrison

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Tom T. Hall

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom Stoppard

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

Tom Brown, Jr.

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brady

I certainly want a name that I can pronounce!

Tim Lincecum

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

Sam Ewing

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

Sam Harris

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

S. E. Hinton

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

S. E. Hinton

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

Stephenie Meyer

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.