Quotes About Name

#1. [in regards to Chad's Nifty Over Fifty Moustache and Beard Darkener] "'Dark Bravado Blonde, Number 143.' The name alone makes my loins all aquiver."
Amber

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#2. When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

Anthony Hopkins

#3. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism ...

George Washington

#4. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#5. Sir William meditated. "Do you recall the name of the saint who was a regular rip before he got religion?" he asked. "I think that applies to most of them," said Fosdike.

Edward J. O'Brien

#6. Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.

Krista Ritchie

#7. You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

Georges St-Pierre

#8. I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.

Paris Hilton

#9. I love you, Ivey, and you got a name you gave yourself that means somethin' to you but I still want you to take mine.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

Paulo Coelho

#11. As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

Anne Rice

#13. Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

Gore Vidal

#14. Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

Brian Wilson

#15. My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

Debby Ryan

#16. [On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

Audrey Hepburn

#17. My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem ... a little crazy to you.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Something - a flick of color, the faint beat of the earth under my feet, or maybe my name in someone's thoughts - made me lift my eyes.

Patricia A. McKillip

#19. Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Gerard Way

#20. Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#21. Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

Joey Bishop

#23. various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.

Anne Lamott

#24. When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms

Aleister Crowley

#25. One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Ellis Peters

#26. Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Dylan Thomas

#27. I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in the trailer, and then my name came up on the credits, and this is the dream you dare to dream, that came true.

Robert Kazinsky

#28. This is how foreign grace was to her, that when she heard it she mistook it for heresy. There are some people, I am sorry to say, who wouldn't recognize grace if it stood at their door wearing a name tag.

Philip Gulley

#29. I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Ban Ki-moon

#30. If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.

Bruce Lee

#31. A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

Jessica Khoury

#32. This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb! His special name is Terry

Tali Carmi

#33. We ought to call it something,' said Banokles thoughtfully. 'We can't just keep calling it "that big bastard horse". It ought to have a name.' 'What do you suggest?' - 'Arse Face.

David Gemmell

#34. He checked in under the name Dee Dee Ramone and paid cash for his room. He

Stephen King

#35. Shame, which is the reluctance to be who we're not even sure we are, could end up being the deepest thing about us, deeper even than who we are, as though beyond identity were buried reefs and sunken cities teeming with creatures as we couldn't begin to name because they came long before us.

Andre Aciman

#36. Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nathan Fillion

#37. For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret - the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not it is the innermost chamber.

George MacDonald

#38. I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Idris Elba

#39. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Raquel Welch

#40. If I were perfect, my name would be Barbie. It's not, so I must be incredibly real.

Marie

#41. I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there was a name for it.

Carleen Brice

#42. Terrorism is not just about indiscriminate violence. As its name suggests, it is about instilling paranoia

Dana Priest

#43. Three things I remember: I was in a city so old it did not have a name,; there was a full moon that cast a pale light over buildings unlike any I had ever seen before; and at the end of a long tunnel something was waiting for me.

Jonathan Aycliffe

#44. Do you like my name? he asked.
"yes, I do," I replied.
"Good, because one day soon, I want to give it to you.

Jenna Roads

#45. When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

Mark McGwire

#46. Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

Samuel Butler

#47. Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

Swami Vivekananda

#48. The purpose of life is to know God and to bring glory and honor to his name. For most people, marriage enhances the possibility of achieving this objective.

Gary Chapman

#49. I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

Nic Pizzolatto

#50. Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Erma Bombeck

#51. All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

Plato

#52. She? You're not one of those people who name their cars and coffee mugs, are you? It's an inanimate object. Get over it.

Susan Ee

#53. Please pray & wish me well (in hearing session). All I want is to clear my name and return to the badminton.

Lee Chong Wei

#54. My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Dakota Fanning

#55. The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me ... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

Bruce Springsteen

#56. Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause
I wish I could name every one
but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

#58. My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

Emily Giffin

#59. My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Francois Hollande

#60. He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose,
was without peer
and if fools claim Limoges
produced a better, there are always those
who measure worth by popular acclaim,
ignoring principles of art and reason
to base their judgments on the author's name.

Dante Alighieri

#61. Just 'cause a book don't have a title, don't mean it don't have a name.

Kami Garcia

#62. My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

Chord Overstreet

#63. A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.

George R R Martin

#64. Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan. What tipped off the authorities he might be the bomber? His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan.

Jay Leno

#65. What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples - neat and discrete - and more like oatmeal. It's always been oatmeal in India, and all the varieties of oatmeal continue to merge, despite political pressures to name them as if they were marbles.

Michael Erard

#66. From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

Laozi

#67. Call any vegetable,
call it by name,
and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you

Frank Zappa

#68. Our souls have a disease. It causes all the troubles and difficulties in the world. It causes all the troubles, confusions, and disillusionments in your own life. The name of the disease is ... sin.

Billy Graham

#69. 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

#70. Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Isaac Asimov

#71. Then Charon looked at me. That cold stare behind his glasses seemed to bore a hole through my chest. "Here now," he said. "You couldn't read my name correctly. Are you dyslexic, lad?"
"No," I said. "I'm dead.

Rick Riordan

#72. You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch

Frank Herbert

#73. My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt.

Frank Iero

#74. You know I don't listen to market gossip," she began,
"but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter's name is mentioned.

Tracy Chevalier

#75. My lips curve around the shape of his name. I'm surprised to discover how much I love the easy, familiar way the sound rolls off my tongue.

Tahereh Mafi

#76. Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.'

Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.

Neil Gaiman

#77. Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen.

Ron Baratono

#78. I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

Rebecca De Mornay

#79. Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

Lee Iacocca

#80. God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

John Piper

#81. We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

Terence McKenna

#82. Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'.

Wilbur Moorehead Smith

#83. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#84. The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Benjamin Disraeli

#85. I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#86. Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, Who taught (to write) with the pen. Taught man what he knew not.

Anonymous

#87. Grace," he whispered as he slid his fingers over my swollen lips. "I want to be inside you so damn bad right now. But when I do that, I want to hear you scream my fucking name as you claw your nails down my back.

Christine Zolendz

#88. Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?

Robin Hobb

#89. When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Paul David Tripp

#90. I saw a bakery truck go by with the name 'Rocco' on it, and that's when I decided to become Alex Rocco.

Alex Rocco

#91. If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

Charles Dickens

#92. Her name, he says like the Lord's taken in vain. Sometimes he says "Mexico," and the word has nothing in it at all. A wall with no colors painted on it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#93. I have plenty of friends," she says.
"Name one."
She looks at me.
Which I guess is sort of sweet.

George Saunders

#94. I forget your name," I said.
"Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it with your mouth."
"Your mother gave birth through her arse," I said, "and you still reek of her shit.

Bernard Cornwell

#95. I see. Certainly. It would be nice to put his name on the buns with pink sugar, wouldn't it?" "Perks," said Peter, "it's not a pretty name." "His other name's Albert," said Phyllis; "I asked him once." "We might put A. P.," said Mother; "I'll show you how when the day comes." This

E. Nesbit

#96. All those days had been removed, simply and precisely, whole weeks brimming with cloudless blue skies neatly severed and discarded. We needed Beth's name shouted not whispered.

Karen Foxlee

#97. In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

Dan B. Allender

#98. You didn't care about the .... the name.'
'Not the name.'. He led my gaze, unfaltering, unblinking. 'Just the girl.

Catherine Doyle

#99. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

William James

#100. 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Konrad Lorenz