Names Quotes

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

My name is Louie, but they call me Tony!

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

names are a way to keep people in your mind

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.