Quotes of: Naming Keyword

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

Harvey Milk

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Muhammad Ali

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Gad Elmaleh

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

Darren Criss

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Feinstein

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

Mandy Moore

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

Malcolm Wilson

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

Sextus: There's this wild man in the desert named John who drowns people in water.

Ben-Hur

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Aldrich Ames

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

Anthony Liccione

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Andrew Motion

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Abdolkarim Soroush

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.

Andy Samberg

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

Alexander Wang

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Alfred North Whitehead

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Ambrose Bierce

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

Charles Hodge