Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivienne Westwood

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Vladimir Lenin

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Walter Cronkite

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Virginia Woolf

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

Weegee

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

Samuel Beckett

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Samuel Hahnemann

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Sally Ride

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

Salman Rushdie

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

Salman Rushdie

The problem's name is God.

Salman Rushdie

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

W. H. Auden

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

William Dampier

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Cobbett

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

William Cowper

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

Wayne Newton

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

Rock Hudson

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Robertson Davies

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

Robertson Davies

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Robert Penn Warren

I longed to know the world's name.

Robert M. Pirsig

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Robert Fisk

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Walt Frazier

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

Wally Schirra

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

Walt Disney

Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.

Walt Whitman

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

Sarah Dessen

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Sarah Dessen

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby