Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Nikolai Berdyaev

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Nicole Krauss

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

N. Scott Momaday

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

N. Scott Momaday

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

Mort Walker

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

Miranda Otto

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

Mireille Enos

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I'm not even a household name in my own household

John Proctor

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Mark Twain

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

Mark Twain

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Mark Twain

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

Mario Andretti

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

Marilyn Manson

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Merle Haggard

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Meles Zenawi

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Masashi Kishimoto

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.

Michael Grant

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

Michel Foucault

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Michael Jai White

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Oscar Wilde

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

L'Wren Scott

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

Lucretius

And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.