Assumed Name Quotes

#1. I don't want to say anything about my kids ... but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

Robert Orben

#2. I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

George Zimmerman

#3. When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff.

Germaine Greer

#4. My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

Chanel Iman

#5. Most people assumed Aaron was gay just because he was on the cheerleading squad. I, on the other hand, assumed a guy who would endure severe social stigma in the name of getting his hands under a bunch of girls' skirts when he lifted them into the air was probably pervier than your average bear.

Stacey Jay

#6. I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

Leon Joseph Suenens

#7. Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Jeff Lindsay

#8. I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

Christopher Buckley

#9. Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.

Molly Harper

#10. Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

Tibor Fischer

#11. Even though I know it's wrong, you turned my life into a country song and I keep playin' it, on repeat.

Caisey Quinn

#12. I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

Justus Von Liebig

#13. Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter

#14. I assumed he'd kill me, not my people. (Stryker)
The man's name is War. Did that not clue you in about his personality? This would be tantamount to meeting Peone and expecting the goddess of retaliation to forgive you and blithely walk away to let you live a happy life. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Thomas Browne

#16. What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Thomas Paine

#17. He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar as to her as his name.

Patricia A. McKillip

#18. He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charley Reese

#20. Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

George MacDonald