Names Quotes

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

I know all that better than my own name.

We all have names we don't know about.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.