Names Quotes
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Beyond the hills, a master is who knows our secret names. With bell and bones, he’ll call us home, winter, fall or spring.
Andre Alexis -
You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
Tracy Chevalier
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing -
The king's name is a tower of strength.
William Shakespeare -
Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.
Serena Williams -
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
Joanne Rowling -
Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.
C. S. Lewis -
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
William Shatner -
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
Lao Tzu -
It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.
Arthur Chu
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The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
George Washington -
The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
Walt Frazier -
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
William Wordsworth -
You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
Nigel Kneale -
Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
William P. Young -
There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
William Shakespeare
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling -
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
William James -
The Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.
Herodotus -
To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names.
Bohumil Hrabal