Names Quotes

We see only what we have names for.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Everybody should customize their names.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

The real name for 'science' is magic.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.