There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
~By John McEnroe ~
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.
~By Willie Mays ~
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
~By William Godwin ~
And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
~By Elton John ~
Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.
~By Jay Leno ~
I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.
~By Mike Judge ~
Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
~By Piper Laurie ~
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
~By Otis Williams ~
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
~By Jared Diamond ~
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
~By Lee Westwood ~
There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.
~By Gray Davis ~
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
~By George Weah ~
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
~By Charles Eastman ~
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?
~By Carrie Snodgress ~
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
~By John Hales ~
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
~By Daniel Craig ~
I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
~By David R. Gergen ~
I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.
~By Nicky Hilton ~
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
~By Doug Coupland ~
His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
~By Marc Davis ~
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
~By Neil LaBute ~
One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
~By Jo Brand ~
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
~By John Oates ~
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
~By Calvin Klein ~
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
~By Wild Bill Hickok ~
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
~By Francis Bacon ~
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
~By Alvaro Uribe Velez ~
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
~By Andrew Oliver ~
I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
~By James Roosevelt ~
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
~By Nana Visitor ~
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
~By Herb Brooks ~
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
~By Luther Allison ~
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
~By William Blake ~
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.
~By Mary Crosby ~
Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
~By Alvin Martin ~
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
~By Vachel Lindsay ~
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
~By Anna Freud ~
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
~By Stephen Vincent Benet ~
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
~By Phaedrus ~
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
~By Harvey Milk ~
I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.
~By David Baltimore ~
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
~By John Searle ~
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~By Rene Daumal ~
He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.
~By George Herbert Walker ~
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~By Aristotle ~
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
~By Charles T. Russell ~
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
~By Paula Danziger ~
The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.
~By Majel Barrett ~
The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.
~By Retief Goosen ~
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.
~By Alan Vega ~
I have a funny name.
~By Pia Zadora ~
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
~By Piper Laurie ~
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
~By Carl Reiner ~
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.
~By Cat Deeley ~
I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
~By Bill Dickey ~
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
~By George Burns ~
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.
~By Doug McClure ~
I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.
~By Mary Steenburgen ~
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
~By Paul de Man ~
The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
~By Lleyton Hewitt ~
Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
~By Lee Konitz ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
~By David Baker ~
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
~By Will Adams ~
The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
~By William Prescott ~
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
~By Ryan White ~
|