Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Kronenberger

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

Mehmet Oz

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Michel de Montaigne

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Michel de Montaigne

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

Michael Keaton

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Alan Curbishley

Richard Murray must have some names on his shelf.

Jerry Spinelli

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

Jesse Schell

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Jesse Jackson

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.

Jennifer Lawrence

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

Jennifer Lopez

A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.

Jeff Gannon

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jean Giraudoux

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Jackie Mason

The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts.

Christopher Lasch

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Christopher Hitchens

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

Christopher Hitchens

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

Gaston Bachelard

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

Gaston Bachelard

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

Jason Momoa

When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act.

Jason Mraz

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

Herbert Read

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

Evelyn Waugh

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Evelyn Waugh

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evan Esar

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Eugene Ionesco

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Ernest Hemingway

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Evita Peron

I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

Erwin McManus

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.