Quotes about names
names solitude historical
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes. Gaston Bachelard
names house balance
Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition. Frederic Morton
names people want
Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you. Freddy Adu
names actors matter
No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer. Christopher Eccleston
names ideas world
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world. Christian Lacroix
names excellence want
I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence. Chris Rock
names goes-on action
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on. George Santayana
names order confusion
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
names secret shapes
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name. George Orwell
names ugly ends
You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.... Frank Zappa
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 lucky michigan
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. Gary Shteyngart
names theatre acting
Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool. Gabriel Iglesias
names bad-health
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
names people forever
People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right. Frank Iero
names ill wounds
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. George Herbert
names tasks no-fear
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Christopher Columbus
names calling ruffles
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling. Christine Feehan
names use lasts
Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane. "Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?" "Is that supposed to be a proposal?
names self consciousness
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
names once-upon-a-time poison
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. Chris Wooding
names hollywood-films hbo
I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show. Chris Lilley
names america choices
The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace. George W. Bush
names lakes moments
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)
names president want
I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.
names long community
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
names fifth-graders fifth
My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader. George Smoot
names hell seven
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne. George R. R. Martin
names giving
Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
names steps knows
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
names useless buttons
I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.