Name Quotes - page 10

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. (Edgar Allan Poe)
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. View quote
Saadi
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival. View quote
Colin Farrell
I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon. View quote
Aleister Crowley
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had. View quote
Ben Kingsley
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. View quote
Roland Barthes
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. (Washington Irving)
It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. View quote
Harper Lee
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. View quote
Samuel Johnson
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace.. . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever. View quote
Elie Wiesel
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? View quote
Anne Rice
There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. (Philip Roth)
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful - be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change. View quote
Thom Yorke
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. View quote
William Gibson