Names Quotes

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray.

Give death a better name or die trying.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK.

I certainly want a name that I can pronounce!

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

The name of the human who is written in this note shall die.

That girl can barely spell her name.

When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.