Names Quotes
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There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.
Gail Simone
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
Mercedes Ruehl
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Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
Terence McKenna
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When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
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I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.
Carolyn Murphy
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It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else on Twitter.
Casper Smart
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Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.
Sharon Bolton
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Stephen Spender
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
Lois McMaster
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THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
Terry Brooks
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
Martin Heidegger
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Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.
Mort Walker
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia
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Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
Charles MacArthur
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At the beginning, we didn't have the money to pay big names, which is how looking for new faces began a tradition that still continues 30 years into the Guess history. It's been interesting to follow their careers after a Guess shoot, for both photographers and models, because the exposure around the world becomes so huge.
Paul Marciano
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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
William Gurnall
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If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.
Catherine Anderson
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The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.
Stephen Carter
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In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
Carlos Mencia
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
Gautama Buddha
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
Herbie Hancock
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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
Hayao Miyazaki