Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
~By Brad Bird ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
~By John Oates ~
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
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 ~
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
~By George Saintsbury ~
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 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 ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.
~By John Whitehead ~
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
~By Christopher Walken ~
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
~By Italo Svevo ~
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
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.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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 ~
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
~By Dennis Potter ~
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 ~
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
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 ~
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.
~By Peter Gabriel ~
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 ~
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
~By William Westmoreland ~
Biblical names are hot again.
~By Anita Diament ~
People's fates are simplified by their names.
~By Elias Canetti ~
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
~By Caryl Chessman ~
I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.
~By Duong Van Minh ~
I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
~By Piper Laurie ~
I don't have any nicknames.
~By Sally Ride ~
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
~By Fred Allen ~
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
~By Larry King ~
Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
~By David Milne ~
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
~By Mary Austin ~
What's really fun is to write under different names.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
~By Lee Konitz ~
I like big, secure companies. I know what they do for a living. When I see their names on my monthly statement I know how they make their money.
~By John Fisher ~
My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
~By January Jones ~
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
~By Jay London ~
Proper names are rigid designators.
~By Saul Kripke ~
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
~By Louis Stokes ~
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
~By Larry Niven ~
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 ~
I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
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 ~
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
~By George Washington Carver ~
I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.
~By Holly Johnson ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.
~By Eric Roberts ~
We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.
~By John Conyers ~
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
~By Little Richard ~
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 ~
George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.
~By Cesar Romero ~
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 ~
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
And so with all things: names were vital and important.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
~By Darrell Royal ~
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
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 ~
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
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 ~
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
~By Plato ~
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
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 ~
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
~By Ramakrishna ~
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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 ~
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
~By Stephen Vincent Benet ~
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
~By Franz von Papen ~
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 ~
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
~By Bob Dole ~
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
~By John Hales ~
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 ~
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