Names Quotes

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

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.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.