Top 71 Bad Names Quotes
#1. SHE hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names;
And thereupon replies
That his hair is beautiful,
Cold as the March wind his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
#2. Though bad names and deeds those bring them spread fast, words of praise from selfless tongues pass miles and to million faster.
Doctor Kesi
#3. The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
Stephen Chbosky
#5. What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.
Eve Ensler
#7. If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.
Louis De Bernieres
#8. Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#9. The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
Kenneth Grahame
#10. When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.
Terry Pratchett
#11. People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
George Coyne
#12. I think my friend Jeff is gay. I don't know - I'm so bad with names.
Anthony Jeselnik
#13. I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
Sam Trammell
#14. Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Louisa May Alcott
#15. I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
Oscar De La Renta
#16. Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.
John Ringo
#17. That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
#19. I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.
Nicki Minaj
#21. The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
Raekwon
#22. I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.
J. E. Buckrose
#23. People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.
John Marsden
#24. There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
Rob Zombie
#25. I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#26. Three questions," I said. "First: Thor has a giantess friend?"
"Yes," Blitz said. "Not all giants are bad."
"Second: do all giantess names begin with G?"
"No."
"Last question: "Thor is a martial artist? Does he have, like, backup nunchucks, too?
Rick Riordan
#27. Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
Pliny The Elder
#30. If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.
Harper Lee
#32. Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
Will Cuppy
#33. The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#34. These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
#35. As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Joshua Foer
#36. A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas Hood
#37. Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.
Matt Diaz
#38. Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
Dennis Hopper
#39. Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.
John Stuart Mill
#40. You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We [Americans] permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
John Irving
#41. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#42. Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.
Anjelica Huston
#43. Well, you know, my name is Ced and I kinda consider myself an entertainer. Hey that ain't bad yeah, Cedric the Entertainer.
Cedric The Entertainer
#44. I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm
#45. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
Criss Jami
#46. Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#47. I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names ... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.
Sharon Jones
#48. Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.
Rudyard Kipling
#49. You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.
Stewart Francis
#50. Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.
Mike Thompson
#51. I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.
Linus Torvalds
#52. We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.
Janet Macunovich
#53. Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
Peg Bracken
#54. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. But complaining that you have a bad memory for names or numbers is a bit like whining about your smartphone functioning poorly underwater.
Dean Buonomano
#56. Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
Elizabeth Drew
#57. I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ and therefore I shy away from church.
John Lennon
#58. Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
Terry Pratchett
#61. Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
Idi Amin
#62. Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.
B. J. Porter
#63. Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'
Ann Coulter
#65. I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
Gloria Steinem
#66. And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.
Nicki Minaj
#67. In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are ... show them some love.
Matt Kemp
#68. If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.
Dov Davidoff
#69. I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. ... This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. ... Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem giants who will stand up for our children.
Al Sharpton
#70. Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.
Nicki Minaj
#71. I'd learned my lesson well by that point. Why make a bad situation worse by calling it names to its face?
Louisa Hall
