In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.
When Cara [Delevingne] and Dane [DeHaan] arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this. " I gave them the 600 pages. I said, "You have to learn everything. You're a cop. You need to know the names. " I don't want him, when he meets an alien to go, "Whoa" like this. I want him to know if this guy is peaceful.
I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.
To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.
Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you. . . There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
There are. . . many. . . names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
War is not to be waged in the name of God.
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.
The name of the Slough was Despond.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.