Names Quotes

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

Excellence is the name of the game.

There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

The stage calls my name.

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.

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A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

When I marry my name will not change.

People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

The name Reflect It Back comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

If you ask people in the US what logos they like and recognise, they'll name Target or Nike.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has certainly influenced my style.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

Players aren't quite as intimidated by my name.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

You have to name it to claim it

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.

I receive a lot of snacks and yogurt that have nearly the same name as me.

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.