Names Quotes
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When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
William Arnot
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Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.
Bei Dao
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Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Richard Widmark
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I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
Herb Ritts
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As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Joshua Foer
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
Michael Moorcock
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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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To every one Nature appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Honestly, when I'm out there, I really don't even think about them as guys with names. I look at them as numbers.
Ezekiel Elliott
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You can take your Jake Roberts and your Hulk Hogans and your Ultimate Warriors and a lot of these guys that were big names back then, but they never did anything for me. They never helped me, they never thought of helping me, and when they had a chance to help me, they never did.
Bret Hart
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I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
Scott Adams
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Your name is written on my heart, Lily
Nalini Singh
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I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
Mickey Gilley
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
Debra Dean
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I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
Raphael Saadiq
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She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz
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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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If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.
Geert Wilders
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Paul Auster
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck