Quotes about name
names four problem
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem. Veronica Roth
names people champion
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion. Vince Flynn
names saving rich
You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere Robert G. Allen
names enemy atheism
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal. Robert Green Ingersoll
names shining may
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. Samuel Johnson
names add reputation
Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
names giving civilized-nations
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
names two lists
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.
names world moral
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
names giving civilized-nations
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
names remember horrible
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. Sam Trammell
names clouds long
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name. Safra A. Catz
names iraq invaders
We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders. Saddam Hussein
names people roles
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. Ruth Negga
names rocks hips
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock. Rock Hudson
names matter trouble
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. Robertson Davies
names shut-up speak
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.
names world knows
I longed to know the world's name. Robert Penn Warren
names awful needs
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? Vivienne Westwood
names purple punk
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
names democracy movement
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism. Vladimir Lenin
names government duty
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. Walter Cronkite
names america gentleman
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion. Virginia Woolf
names world photographer
My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer… Weegee
names eggs phantoms
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? Samuel Beckett
names language futility
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
names essentials return
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 . Samuel Taylor Coleridge
names confusion nerves
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names. Samuel Hahnemann
names secret use
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things. Sally Ride
names world india
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God. Salman Rushdie
names problem
The problem's name is God.
names rubbish matter
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
names nicknames
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. Auden