Names Quotes
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All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.
Arthur Mattuck
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
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The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
Ismail Kadare
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt
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I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
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It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.
CC Sabathia
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People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'
Madeleine Albright
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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
Mother Angelica
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
Tom G. Palmer
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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
Ernest Renan
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In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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
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How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?
Albert Goldbarth
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
William Goldman
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I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.
Errol Flynn
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The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
William Shatner
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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
Judy Holliday
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Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
Rick Perry
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.
Romany Malco
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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
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I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Tony Goldwyn
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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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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