Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Slash

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

Rajneesh

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Sojourner Truth

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

John Milton

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

Misha Collins

I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

Miguel de Cervantes

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Martin Luther

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

Martin Luther

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

Marilu Henner

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Nick Lowe

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Nick Cave

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Missi Pyle

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

Philip Sidney

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Petra Kelly

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Peter Drucker

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peg Bracken

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Martin Scorsese

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

Maria Sharapova

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Shawn Ryan

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

Nikita Khrushchev

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nicolas Chamfort

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Nicolas Chamfort

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Nicolas Chamfort

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Nicolas Cage

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Nicki Minaj

He toss my salad like his name Romaine

Nolan Ryan

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

Nora Roberts

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen