Quotes about name
names silence silent
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
names giving want
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
names hospitality
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable. Hesiod
names repentance aspiration
Repentance is another name for aspiration. Henry Ward Beecher
names degrees different
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. Henry James Sumner Maine
names common constitution
In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution. Henry Clay
names giving primitive
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. Helen Vendler
names light noise
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
names bears collectives
I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
names differences perception
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. Joanna Trollope
names remember made
I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember. Joaquin Phoenix
names remember easier
I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names. Joe Gold
names calling dialogue
It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling. Joan Jett
names racing style
I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing. Jimmie Johnson
names promotion
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it. Jimi Hendrix
names political personality
Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while. Emma Goldman
names saws terrible
I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible. Emilio Estevez
names needs looks
I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it. Heidi Klum
names
I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.
names america three
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. John James Audubon
names rewards ministry
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. John Hancock
names venice water
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. John Guare
name ourselves slowly trying
That's all right with us. We're trying to make a name for ourselves on the road. We're doing it, slowly but surely.
names roots flow
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r. Ayn Rand
names people phrases
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.
names people religion
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. Bertrand Russell
names taxes validity
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name. Benjamin Cardozo
names voice apples
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously. Dieter Rams
names fruit-juice air
If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena. Eduard Buchner
names number
A number of them don't even have names yet.
name point shape stop work
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
name progress
The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
name simon
The name of Simon Wiesenthal ... will live on, Heinz Fischer