When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
~By Norman Granz ~
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
~By Count Basie ~
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
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 ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
~By Cat Stevens ~
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
~By Lane Evans ~
Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
~By Andy Van Slyke ~
The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.
~By Bo Gritz ~
I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.
~By Jude Law ~
We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.
~By Eric Roberts ~
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
~By Plato ~
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
~By Roy Barnes ~
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
~By Bob Graham ~
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
~By Maya Lin ~
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
~By Anita Diament ~
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
~By Italo Svevo ~
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
~By Billy Sunday ~
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
~By John James Audubon ~
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
~By Robert Hall ~
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
~By Duke of Wellington ~
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
~By Ann Coulter ~
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
~By Marcel Dionne ~
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
~By Jesse Helms ~
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
~By Norman Granz ~
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.
~By John Strachan ~
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
~By John Corigliano ~
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
~By Alice Walker ~
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
~By Martin Bormann ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.
~By John Whitehead ~
And so with all things: names were vital and important.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
~By Alvin Martin ~
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
~By Jon Postel ~
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
~By Wayne Newton ~
I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.
~By Holly Johnson ~
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.
~By Paul Reiser ~
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
~By Pam Grier ~
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
~By George Wald ~
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
~By Jim Morrison ~
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
~By Little Richard ~
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
~By William Westmoreland ~
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
~By John Mellencamp ~
The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.
~By James Donald ~
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
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 ~
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
People's fates are simplified by their names.
~By Elias Canetti ~
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
~By Earl Monroe ~
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
~By John Hales ~
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
~By Derek Jarman ~
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
~By Eric Brown ~
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
~By Ike Turner ~
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
~By Plato ~
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
~By Larry Niven ~
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
~By Paris Hilton ~
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
~By James Brown ~
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
~By Larry King ~
I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
~By River Phoenix ~
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
What's really fun is to write under different names.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
~By Josh McDowell ~
At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
~By Carl Rakosi ~
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
~By Penelope Lively ~
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
~By Charles Barkley ~
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