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The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee

Devil, Dullness

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Rather, Inherit

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

Music, Unknowable

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz

Yourself, Game, Destroy

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Ramakrishna

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
Jim Garrison

Experience, America, Afraid

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling

Parents, Hard, Put

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

Mother, School, Become

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Less, Talking

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.
Rush Limbaugh

Country, Find, Cannot

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Young, Poverty, Common

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.
Demetri Martin

Time, Place, Makes

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay

Good, Evil, Friends

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.
Jack Kevorkian

Life, Work, Why

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Doug Coupland

Dead, Ten, Quick

How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
Elle Macpherson

Successful, Passion, Enough

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King Solomon

Good, Rather, Riches

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Often, Worth, Sign

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
Charles Buck

Sunday, Times, Lord

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Lily Tomlin

Special, Why, Feet

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing, Fame, Empty

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher

Two, Three, Obvious

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz Kafka

Time, Law, Fact

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault

Power, Strength, Society

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

Creativity, Creative, Cares

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper

Nature, Good, God

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey

Old, Between, Difference

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Mind, Forget

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
Tyra Banks

Today, Become, Themselves

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