Quotes About Surnames

#1. Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two.

Susanna Clarke

#2. A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.

Tim O'Brien

#3. It seemed to him that Filipinos didn't attach too much importance to what their first names could do to their fate, only to their surnames.

Clarissa V. Militante

#4. Her full name is Eva Morelli Stein Hathaway. She retains her surnames not because they define her, but because she defines them; that is, except for the first--Morelli. Ironically it is the one she's least familiar with...

Maryann D'Agincourt

#5. As for women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads. Their surnames are here today, gone tomorrow. Throughout their lives, women fill out official forms in different ways, apply for new passports and design several signatures.

Elif Shafak

#6. It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant warriot' and not 'he who hits kittens with a hammer.' You'd be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside ...

James Goss

#7. The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

W.B.Yeats

#8. Only classical composers were known by just their surnames, and this suited my mudlark temperament quite nicely.

Morrissey

#9. One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

Nicholson Baker

#10. We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Wallace Shawn

#11. If you can write it, I can be it.

Karen Black

#12. Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.

Joe Tex

#13. Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. All habits gather by unseen degrees.

John Dryden

#15. I love black thighs, you sisters better realize
That real hair and real eyes get real guys.
So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind ...

Common

#16. As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Eric Kandel

#17. Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Michael Leunig

#18. I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

#19. If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Jan C. Ting

#20. I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

#21. I am agreed, and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the house of her

William Shakespeare

#22. I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

Jon Favreau

#23. Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of 'Clary Herondale.'
Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible.
Jace: We all must sacrifice for love.

Cassandra Clare

#24. And does Alan have a last name?" I asked.
"Probably," said Curtis, "but we have a 'if you have to ask, you don't need to know because I don't want to friend you on Facebook' policy.

Aldous Mercer

#25. I haven't stopped thinking about Orion, and it's made a mess of me. Nothing happened between us. Nothing physical, anyway. We never touched, and after a while, we hardly even spoke. But I felt different.

Jessi Kirby

#26. 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