Quotes about names
names century made
Our names were made for us in another century. Richard Brautigan
names people faces
If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you. Richard Branson
names reputation brand-names
Your brand name is only as good as your reputation
names shapes want
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. Rem Koolhaas
names enjoy-life challenges
I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.
names people mind
All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.
names space people
With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.
names people products
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
names body needs
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Swami Vivekananda
names space form
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
names ideas clay
Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.
names heaven doctrine
Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.
names substance plus
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
names differentiation form
Differentiation is in name and form only.
names form universe
What is this universe but name and form?
names giving desire
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.
names ideas want
My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.
names giving
I hope I dont give music a bad name. Tiny Tim
names long said
My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good. Tina Yothers
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.