Names Quotes

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.

Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.

Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.

I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

Who is here with you?” “Don’t stop,” she begged. “Who is here with you?” he repeated, harshly this time. “You are.” “What is my name?” “Reyes

It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus. Both allies, but they send quite a different message.

I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.

I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.

The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'