Named Quotes
817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors
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If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
— Carl Sagan
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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise,…
— Robert Browning
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I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
— Joni Mitchell
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The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
— Malcolm X
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If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.
— John Ashbery
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Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.†Most children do not learn what to…
— Bell Hooks
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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite…
— Gregory Corso
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I think my parents were high when they named me.
— Jolene Blalock
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Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And…
— Keke Palmer
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My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he…
— Dolph Lundgren
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Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.
— Rebel Wilson
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made…
— Usher
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val?…
— Val Kilmer
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Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!
— John Wayne
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Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind…
— Derek Luke
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There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.
— George Carlin
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I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.
— Dave Barry
Who Wrote These Named Quotes
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