Quotes About Surname

#1. I am Reaylin de Voss," she said smugly, as if he should recognize her surname. He did not, which meant her family was not particularly wealthy, powerful or influential. "Well,

Kel Kade

#2. A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

Kelley Armstrong

#3. No surname? Or is Thorn it?"
"Thorn is all anyone needs to know about me."
"As in thorn up all our collective nether regions," Devyl muttered.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. The Listener's editor when I first joined was Russell Twisk, a surname of such surpassing beauty that I would have written pieces for him if he had been at the helm of Satanic Child-Slaughter Monthly.

Stephen Fry

#5. Mitochondrial genes act like a female surname, which enables us to trace our ancestry down the female line in the way some families try to trace their descent down the male line from William the Conqueror, or Noah, or Mohammed.

Nick Lane

#6. Speaking of people being foxy, do you mean? I'm George Lovelace," said George. "I say my surname without shame, because I am secure in my masculinity like that." "Oh,

Cassandra Clare

#7. I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

Oona Chaplin

#8. Koturovic's a surname," said Tim. "A patronymic. Not a middle name.

Peter Clines

#9. var person = {name: "John", surname: "Smith", address: { street: "13 Duncannon Street", city: "London", country: "United Kingdom" }};

Andrea Chiarelli

#10. Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

Russell Brand

#11. His nostrils flared with annoyance. "I prefer Ambassador Asterios, thank you very much." "Using your surname, eh?" "I requested Big Daddy Steve, but your Elders feel it isn't official enough. Tools.

Joshua Roots

#12. It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

Julian McMahon

#13. Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

Zoe Saldana

#14. Simon had to save the world, and the rest of us get in because we have the right surname?" George asked lightly. He winked at Simon. "Hard luck on you, mate.

Cassandra Clare

#15. You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#16. The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

#17. 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

#18. In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Anne Enright

#19. 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

#20. When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt."
Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?"
Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.

K.J. Charles

#21. I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.

Anil Ambani

#22. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

#23. And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks."
"-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin.
"So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

Sanjay Dutt

#25. My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

Samantha Bond

#26. When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Jonathan Swift

#27. A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

Khushwant Singh

#28. My surname for a mask to pretend!
I have no stand to protest,
but I will find it (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')

Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

#29. There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Milla Jovovich

#30. When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

Kangana Ranaut

#31. These exchanges are reported without comment by the East Roman historian Theophylact Simocatta (charmingly, his surname means 'the one-eyed cat').

Peter Heather

#32. The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

Karisma Kapoor

#33. Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only,' finished Lupin.

J.K. Rowling

#34. The surname Messi comes from the Italian town of Porto Recanati, in the province of Macerata, which saw the birth of the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the tenor Beniamino Gigli.

Luca Caioli

#35. Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis; ...

Muriel Spark

#36. I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

Laura Haddock

#37. Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

Pihla Viitala

#38. I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.

Elinor Lipman

#39. I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

Tamara Ecclestone

#40. I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Rachel Weisz

#41. People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

Jacob Zuma

#42. In a fall, you only start from zero velocity if your surname is Coyote.

Hyphatia Cneajna

#43. Change of scene is the thing. I head of a man. Girl refused him. Man went abroad. Two months later girl wired him "Come back, Muriel." Man started to write out a reply; suddenly found that he couldn't remember girl's surname; so never answered at all, and lived happily ever after.

P.G. Wodehouse