Names Quotes

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses.

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.