Quotes about names
names arms firsts
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word. Jeanette Winterson
names hated implied
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... Jennifer Weiner
names length unlimited
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name. Jef Raskin
names ugly publicity
Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait. Jeaniene Frost
names voice choices
Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.
names actors
All actors have to change their name. Jeremy Irvine
names done authority
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is. Georges Bataille
names christ
Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified George Whitefield
names two fiction
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. George Saintsbury
names drunk people
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. Jeffrey Bernard
names said milkweed
Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. Jerry Spinelli
names stargirl shirts
I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.
names people tag
I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots. Eoin Colfer
names people would-be
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. Elvis Costello
names two steps
Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye. Jay Asher
names religion deeds
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed. Jawaharlal Nehru
names
The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt. Jasper Fforde
names vision acting
When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act. Jason Momoa
names way fine
Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine. Jason Mraz
names anarchism knows
I know of no better name than Anarchism. Herbert Read
names sound reason
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better. Evelyn Waugh
names vocabulary needs
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
names cost hamburgers
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much. Evan Esar
names crime submission
Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission Eugene Ionesco
names rivers numbers
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. Ernest Hemingway
names people patriotism
I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory. Evita Peron
names stories india
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. Jhumpa Lahiri
namesake accepting
She has the gift of accepting her life.
namesake
You remind me of everything that followed.
names people childhood
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
names clothes parent
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
names may call-me
I am known by many names, but you may call me...Tim. Graham Chapman
names hollywood fame
2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. Halle Berry