Top 100 Name Was Quotes
#2. My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way
Ali Shariati
#3. Steve. That always felt made-up to me. Like, when your kid says, "Tell me about my daddy, Mama!" and you're on the spot so you blurt out the first name that comes to mind - "Uh, his name was, um, Steve, honey.
Erin Watt
#4. Her given name was Lucinda but she'd called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she'd been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at the booking desk misspelled the word "juvenile." Big
Carl Hiaasen
#5. I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz ... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.
Nicolas Roeg
#6. The Mayor of Murslaugh was a jolly, ebullient man of the sort who, in a well-ordered world, would be called Fezziwig. That his name was Brown was a powerful indictment on the sorry state of things.
Jonathan L. Howard
#7. It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.
Mark Twain
#10. Her name was Dominika Egorova. She was a ballerina, an officer in the SVR, a Sparrow trained to bend others' minds. She loved and was loved in return.
Jason Matthews
#11. My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.
Ernest J. Gaines
#12. Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
John Keats
#13. Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
Joe Namath
#14. I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg
#15. Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.
C.S. Lewis
#16. The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
Sergey Brin
#18. The bastard - no other name was necessary, from now on the man formerly known as J.D. would simply be called The Bastard, The Prick, or The Shithead.
Julie James
#19. Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
Randy Owen
#20. Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.
Carsten Jensen
#21. What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?
Kobo Abe
#22. There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don't have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
John Cage
#23. Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
Jeanette Winterson
#24. My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.
John Krasinski
#25. Her name was Mora ... and she was waiting.
M.L. LeGette
#26. I definitely had an AOL account when I was 14, but I don't remember what my screen name was.
Jillian Bell
#27. The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.
Anne Ursu
#28. Roly Grain, his name was, and he does not have any further part in what I'm writing now, in spite of his troll's name, because this is not a story, only life.
Alice Munro
#30. My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.
Tom Jones
#31. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
William Gibson
#32. Ast year's Best-Sex-Scene-in-a-film winner Vince Voyeur's real name turns out to be John LaForme. Rhetorical Q.: How, if one's real name was John LaForme, could that person possibly feel the need for a nom de guerre?
David Foster Wallace
#33. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.
Isabel Allende
#35. My name's Margareta, by the way." "Oh," I said, then thought that I ought to say something more. She looked as if she were expecting a reply, but what could I say? What could I possibly have to say about her name? Her name was Margareta. Okay. Good. Nice name.
Jonas Karlsson
#36. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.
Karen Maitland
#37. It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'.
John Connolly
#38. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor
#39. 4Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
Anonymous
#40. When we started, the business name was 'Fashion 21.' And change it to 'Forever 21' later.
Do Won Chang
#41. Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
Evan S. Connell
#42. One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.
Michio Kaku
#43. My (paradoxically) Christian name was bestowed in compliment to a godfather, sir. I am no Jew. I have already enough to know the curse of having more.
Bernard Capes
#44. I remember the first date I ever went out on. It was in high school. Her name was Marguerite. She was kind of a heavyset girl ... I took her out on one date. We went out for dinner and a movie and a dinner.
Kevin Nealon
#45. When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realize his first name was ALWAYS.
Jill Kargman
#46. 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
#47. Van Wort was fat and his name was Van Wort. With that combination, why would you pack your kid off to camp? Let him play with ladybugs in the safety of his own lawn.
Sam Lipsyte
#48. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick
#51. He'd found a new home, at last.
And love... Her name was Kymora.
Kylie Griffin
#52. Got dragon balls like my name was Vegeta
Joey Badass
#53. The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it.
John Edward Williams
#55. I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.
Michael Jackson
#56. One wonders how he is able to keep his head on straight without Miss Granger to reel him in." It took James a moment to realize 'Miss Granger' was Aunt Hermione, whose last name was now Weasley.
G. Norman Lippert
#57. Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
J. B. Smoove
#58. She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.
Monica Dickens
#59. You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
Oscar Wilde
#60. My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
Claude Nicollier
#61. My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.
Ruth Reichl
#62. Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.
Linda Howard
#63. My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man
Ashley Cole
#64. The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#65. HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER
Dan Simmons
#66. Her name was Ellen and I loved her very much. She love to pick flowers and put them in vayses. What happen was like a horra movie. I never go see horra movies because on Halloween night in 1958 I lived thru one. My
Stephen King
#67. When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner
#68. Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
Michiel Huisman
#69. Did I just fall in love? I hope not. Maybe my body fell in love a little bit, it's shaking and wants a long hug. His name was Ketchup. I will always remember that name so I'm glad it's a pretty good one.
Dia Felix
#70. Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.
Adam Rex
#71. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. Coxley, a small college on the other side of the minor Pennsylvania river that split our town in two. His real name was Albert Vetch, and his field, I believe, was Blake; I remember he kept a framed print of the Ancient of Days affixed to the faded flocked wallpaper of his room, above a
Michael Chabon
#74. His is the name of fire, the name that rides the whisper of the candlelight. His name was ... is ... Racath Thanjel. And this is his story.
-The Penitent God
S.G. Night
#75. Even though his name was Norberto, everybody called him Alberto, except for my grandmother, who called him Alfredo.
Jennifer Arnold
#76. The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
#77. But that wasn't why the boy, whose name was Will but who also answered to "Useless" and "Hopeless" and "Snot-Face" and "Sniveler" (at least when the alchemist was the one calling to him), felt sorry for himself.
Lauren Oliver
#78. His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.
Kristin Cashore
#79. Then my hostess said, Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.
Quentin Crisp
#80. Write about the world where that name was first spoken. Write about the questions it throws up. And the answers you don't always have.
Bridget Whelan
#81. Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it.
Jon Krakauer
#82. There once was a girl named Destiny. She was the fastest runner in the world. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't outrun who she was. Then she met a boy. He said his name was also Destiny, and for the first time in her life, she didn't feel like she was running alone.
Nyrae Dawn
#83. Elsewhere, they might call the wind Mariah, but here its name was Something Fishy.
Tom Robbins
#84. That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.
John Pearce
#85. The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.
Carolyn Custis James
#86. Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.
Dave Barry
#87. Jesus H. Christ, he says.
I've always wondered why people say that. Why the H? I mean, what if his middle name was Stanley?
Jodi Picoult
#89. Oh God, I was head over heels, drowning underwater, in love with Ren- with Renald Owens. I was in love with a dude whose real name was Renald.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#90. I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
James Van Der Beek
#91. His name was Humberto, and now you're just being petty.
Rae Carson
#92. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.
Victor Hugo
#93. My guilt was firm in their minds the moment my name was called, the moment my tongue was cut.
Julie Berry
#94. He was asked, then, who was this Winged Grief? And Gallan said, 'There is but one left who would dare command me. One who would not weep and yet had taken into his soul a people's sorrow, a realm's sorrow. His name was Silchas Ruin.
Steven Erikson
#95. In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.
David Foster Wallace
#96. I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.
Paul Haggis
#97. While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.
Richard Carmona
#98. His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *
Jon Ronson
#99. When he called her Anne, it was the first time she felt as if the name was truly hers.
Julia Quinn
#100. His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
Sinclair Lewis
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