Names Quotes
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.
There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.
My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.
Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.
The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.