Quotes about names
names space gas-stations
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out Wally Schirra
names responsible feels
Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for. Walt Disney
names idols fame
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. Voltaire
names causes effects
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
names mad age
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
names british-navy ships
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
names insightful world
Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable. Walter White
names race sprung
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. Walter Scott
names tyrants nurse
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
names currency ifs
If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. William S. Burroughs
names sometimes grain
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. Virginia Woolf
names effort doctrine
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Virchand Gandhi
names people want
People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name. Vinnie Jones
names neutrality world
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world. Woodrow Wilson
names needs united-states-of-america
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
names want trouble
Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around. Woody Allen
names nuance film
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
names giving oneself
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself. William Wycherley
names use firsts
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.] William Whewell
names long desire
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. William Wordsworth
names i-am-thankful obnoxious
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun. William Shenstone
names
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! William Shatner
names world way
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. William James
names grew observation
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. William Gilbert
names would-be helping
Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch. Will Cuppy
names miracle needs
Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need. Sarah Ban Breathnach
names errors imperfection
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. William Ellery Channing
names giving businessman
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. William F. Buckley, Jr.
names hypocrisy people
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
names bigger
The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become. Willard Wigan
names focus firsts
Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost. Willard Van Orman Quine
names water facts
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
names mathematics
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.