Names Quotes

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.

If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.

I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

and he said her name to fill the space of five years.

The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Your name?” I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. “Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

When you name yourself, you always name another.