Quotes about names
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. Swami Vivekananda
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.
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 people adhesive
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
names intellectual needs
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute. Raymond Williams
names life-is enigma
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.) Victor Hugo
names forget
My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. Veronica Roth
names ideas people
A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion. Richard Bach
names people costumes
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people. Robert Fulghum
names together dull
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
names way treats
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither. Rita Dove
names ideas world
You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them. Richard Madden
names enormous
Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning. Richard E. Grant
names clothes leader
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can. Renee Olstead
names suits objects
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better. Rene Magritte
names function objects
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.