Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

Ellen G. White

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

Ellen DeGeneres

My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it...

Eric Schmidt

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.

Emily Bronte

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Emily Bronte

She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Cassandra Clare

No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Caroline Lawrence

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be Stands in Confusion.

Carmen Electra

I never had my own name on a bathing suit on Baywatch. I was always given one that said Pamela or Yasmine. I earned my own suit, at the end of the season, which I now have framed.

Murray Gell-Mann

The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

I was with Roy Thomas on a panel and he turned to me and said, "You know, your name is on the cover a magazine every month." I said, "Really?" He pulled out a copy of "Destroyer," and said, "If you cover up the DEST you've got Royer on the cover every month."

Mickey Rourke

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Karl Malone

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Karl Marx

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Jules Verne

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Judith Butler

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

P. T. Barnum

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

P. G. Wodehouse

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P. G. Wodehouse

I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

P. G. Wodehouse

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

Muhammad Ali

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

Muhammad Ali

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Paul Reubens

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

L. Neil Smith

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Eli Roth

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Bruce Springsteen

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Pete Wentz

It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.

Pete Wentz

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Paulo Coelho

Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

Paulo Coelho

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.