Quotes about names
names drawing barbers
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head. Swizz Beatz
names instant-gratification gratification
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. Thorstein Veblen
names drumming middle
Drumming is my middle name. Ringo Starr
names molecules looks
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"? Thomas Szasz
names people giving
The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.
names mets supermarkets
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman. Steven Wright
names cost swamps
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget. Steven Rattner
names numbers people
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. Steven Spielberg
names coward world
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. Richard Cobden
names dinner said
Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
names speak homosexuality
The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it. Robert Brustein
names soul definitions
The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural. Robert Bridges
names devil littles
Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil. Toni Morrison
names people bears
I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
names black down-and
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
names meditation language
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
names strange wonderful
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. Tom T. Hall
names trying firsts
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. Tom Stoppard
names prison shame
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest. Tom Brown, Jr.
names want i-can
I certainly want a name that I can pronounce! Tom Brady
names expectations people
You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me. Tim Lincecum
names telephones
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. Sam Ewing
names cassius brutus
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre. Tacitus
names addresses hanging-on
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. Sylvia Plath
names matter body
Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing. Swami Vivekananda
names body human-body
Body is the name of a series of changes.
names race degradation
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
names people strange
It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange. Rupert Grint
names veins beloved
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. Rumi
names finding-yourself
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
names phrases known
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
names soul universe
You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.
names forever silence
In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?