Quotes About One's Name

#1. 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Lord Byron

#2. Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light.

Sjon

#3. This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.

Alan Bradley

#4. Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others ... somehow the self is always involved.

Jonathan Ames

#5. It's the greatest of Southern honors ... to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

Sheri Holman

#6. I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.

Lee Daniels

#7. And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.

Kresley Cole

#8. To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?

W.G. Sebald

#9. To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

Keith Donohue

#10. Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

Robin McKinley

#11. Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Dwight L. Moody

#12. What people regard as vanity - leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten - I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Paulo Coelho

#13. According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

Guy De Rothschild

#14. It's bad enough to be a baby-making machine with no epidural in sight in exchange for the state-sanctioned title of 'Mrs' before one's name. But to be a 'Miss' with an ever-increasing brood of children, just waiting for the man to grow weary of stretch marks and spit-ups? No thank you?

Laurie Viera Rigler

#15. Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

Grover Cleveland

#16. As we headed back to Tangier we saw a shepherd guiding a camel with her calf. Rolling down the window, I called out: - What is the little one's name? - His name is Jimi Hendrix. - Hooray, I wake from yesterday! - Inshallah! he called out.

Patti Smith

#17. It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.

Anne McCaffrey

#18. Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge

Alexandre Dumas

#19. To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Gustave Flaubert

#20. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.

Lao-Tzu

#21. Nar," a gravely voice answered. "We was told exactly where the beacons were placed, wasn't we? This section's clean. Sentry's all we have to worry about. If you don' see him, then move in.

J.K. Rowling

#22. I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#23. We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.

Morrie Camhi

#24. It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

#25. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in the latest styles from Old Navy, and laid him in a shopping cart, because they were waiting in line to get into Walmart.

Adam Kotsko

#26. Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding ... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

Eileen Wilks

#27. We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Bharati Mukherjee

#28. I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

J.J. Abrams

#29. I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want.

Jandy Nelson

#30. I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him.
'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

Melina Marchetta

#31. The vamps had plans to make for the trip? Well, so did she. Backups for when their plans went to hell and her plans were all they had left.

D.B. Reynolds

#32. I reach for the pettiest thing I can think of because no one has a hard time believing how petty a girl can be.

Courtney Summers