Top 100 Quotes About First Name
#1. We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
Rick Mercer
#2. I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
#3. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#4. She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." " 'Magnanimous Holiness'? Oh, I like that one." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book.
Sarah J. Maas
#5. Now it's my turn," Riley said. "What's your first name? Where'd you grow up? Who's your favorite Batman?
Janet Evanovich
#6. Mr. Wayne is an owner of The Sheffield, Blue," Tiffa said simply. I tried not to quake. Tiffa turned back to Mr. Wayne. I wondered briefly if his first name was Bruce. He looked like he could have a Batmobile stashed on the roof.
Amy Harmon
#7. Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis.
Drake
#8. I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex ... occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls ...
Tom Waits
#9. Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.
Elena Ferrante
#10. What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
Pat Gillick
#11. My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?
Peter Greenaway
#12. Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.
Sarvenaz Tash
#13. I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
Ted Turner
#14. Dr. Cross, please come! Please! Dr. Cross the loud shouts continued. I didn't recognize the woman's voice, but privacy doesn't seem to count when your first name is Doctor.
James Patterson
#15. T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
Sue Monk Kidd
#16. It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie.
Reid Hoffman
#17. I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
John Ridley
#18. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always
Red Skelton
#19. My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
Holly Marie Combs
#20. I've always been called 'Suki,' but my actual first name is Alice.
Suki Waterhouse
#21. If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
Billy Connolly
#22. I eyed the spirit. "You know the name 'Alfred' is a joke, right?" It stared at me. A wind that didn't exist stirred the hem of its cloak. I raised my hands in surrender and said, "All right. I guess you need a first name, too. Alfred Demonreach it is.
Jim Butcher
#23. I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.
Randy Weber
#24. My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time.
I am a crazy woman... That last part is true.
Brunonia Barry
#25. I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing.
I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling.
I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
Terry Pratchett
#28. I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'
Eve Hewson
#29. Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
Fran Lebowitz
#30. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name.
Anonymous
#31. Buchan had discovered a wealth of small tidbits. He now knew her first name - Tatiana. Like Shakespeare's fairy queen. Be she but little, she is fierce.
Karen Hawkins
#32. Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.
Craig Ferguson
#33. People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.
Jay Leno
#34. I like that Maersk is a first name. It's like a massive global corporation named Derek.
Rose George
#35. Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.
Mickey Rivers
#36. No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preeminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him.
Jack London
#37. I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.
George W. Bush
#38. Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn't have been surprised.
Richelle Mead
#39. Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked
"Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?"
"I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.
Maria V. Snyder
#41. His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.
Hugh Laurie
#42. I knew a woman named Hope once, and boy did she fill me with her first name.
Jarod Kintz
#43. Harper Johnson looked down at the woman bleeding on the floor. He drew a line through the first name on his list of three with a pen. The ink was red and the tip was broken, so it bled unevenly as he ran it through the letters.
Elin Barnes
#44. I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.
Paul Reubens
#45. I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
Nathan Lane
#46. Myron, all six feet of super cuteness, comes forward. He smiles and I almost die, because he has one adorable dimple. Instead of getting embarrassed about his first name, he offers his hand and says, "Call me McDaniel.
Courtney Brandt
#47. When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always
Rita Rudner
#48. My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.
CeeLo Green
#49. You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
Mercedes Ruehl
#50. Pete," I say. "Beg your pardon?" He glares at me. "My name is Pete," I say. "We should probably be on a first name basis if you're going to get intimate enough to chop my nuts off." I motion to his hatchet. He blows out a quick breath, grins, and shakes his head.
Tammy Falkner
#51. My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
Aselin Debison
#52. I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.
Mitt Romney
#53. My name was Salmon like the fish, first name Susie.
Alice Sebold
#54. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
#55. A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.
Christine Teigen
#56. We've resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven't been
intimate enough for you to call me by my first name?" Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. "Perhaps I should rectify that.
Melissa Lurquette
#57. My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
Janet Jackson
#58. What's Mr. Dimming's first name?" "Wallace!" We all cracked up at that.
Sharon M. Draper
#59. We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.
Philip Kitcher
#60. You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name mentioned. I don't like it, his being Nurse Temple's son. That's a bad coincidence. Get a read on him. If he has the power, we may not be able to wait to deal with him.
Michael Grant
#61. Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
Eliza Doolittle
#62. 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
#63. I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.
Morgan Brittany
#64. I fondle the last two charms: a letter C- oh yes, I was his first girlfriend to use his first name. I smile at the thought. And finally, there's a key.
"To my heart and soul," he whispers.
E.L. James
#65. It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."
Mindy Kaling
#66. And since when have he and Snape been on first-name terms?' said
J.K. Rowling
#67. Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
Evan S. Connell
#68. When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realize his first name was ALWAYS.
Jill Kargman
#69. 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
#70. I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
Fran Lebowitz
#71. You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
Toni Morrison
#72. When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner
#73. If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.
Walter Darby Bannard
#74. Not Mr. Rasmussen. Call me Dom. I really think we should be on a first-name basis, since you know that I strip off my suit every night and get into bed wearing nothing at all.".
Avery Flynn
#75. I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
Larry Page
#76. I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.
Kevin Moffett
#77. Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.
Susan Stewart
#78. Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
Marv Levy
#79. Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
Vesta Williams
#80. I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!
Michelle Singletary
#81. Very well."
"Say it."
"Say what?"
"Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"
She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. Koko B. Ware ... his mom's first name was Tupper.
Bobby Heenan
#83. My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Immanuel Velikovsky
#84. You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.
Harry Caray
#85. My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
Alice Sebold
#86. The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Rickey Henderson
#87. Nash." Lola nodded toward the disappearing SUV. "Deputy Grayson." She grinned. "His first name is Nash. He's one of the four Grayson brothers. Every last one of them is tall, dark and so handsome they'll make your panties damp.
Elle James
#88. Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business.
Mindee Arnett
#89. I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
Christian Louboutin
#90. [To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
Margot Asquith
#92. Maximilian Kolbe : (1894-1941), what an amazing life! A role model to me and to millions of people around the world. He wanted to be one of the greatest saints in the world. I want to be "A gift from God to Mankind", the meaning of my first name : Teddy.
Teddy Crispin
#93. Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.
Dave Barry
#94. AND THE PERSON OUTSIDE TO WHOM YOU WERE speaking?" Inspector Hewitt asked. "Dogger," I said.
"First name?" "Flavia," I said. I couldn't help myself.
Alan Bradley
#95. My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom's last name. I took my mom's last name since I was 18.
Elle King
#96. Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?" Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness at the edges.
I told her my first name.
Robert B. Parker
#97. If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...
Margaret Deland
#98. Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he's gone over to Hufflepuff, where I'd always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn't get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn't a first name.
Mimi Cross
#99. Wong is the most common surname in the world ... "
" ... John is the most common first name in the world."
"That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up."
"You know, I work with a John Wong.
David Wong
#100. I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
Artie Lange
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