Name Quotes - page 5

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette. (Isaac Asimov)
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? View quote
Brad Pitt
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. View quote
Richard Feynman
Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. View quote
Bob Marley
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. View quote
Aristophanes
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. View quote
William Wordsworth
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. View quote
William Wordsworth
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy. (Steven Gerrard)
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name. View quote
Annie Besant
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't. View quote
Patrick Murray
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. View quote
Lysander Spooner
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Action without a name, a "who” attached to it, is meaningless. (Hannah Arendt)
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. View quote
Mason Cooley
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Frailty, thy name is woman! View quote
William Shakespeare