Names Quotes
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
C. S. Lewis -
You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.
Emanuel Lasker
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Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz -
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.
Utah Phillips -
In the name of God and humanity I protest!
John B. Hood -
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper -
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
Yann Martel
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You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.
Elizabeth Hoyt -
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
Virginia Woolf -
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."
Cary Fukunaga -
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Oscar Wilde -
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!
T. B. Joshua -
My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.
Weegee -
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
John Milton -
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
A. Whitney Brown -
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?
Saadat Hasan Manto
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You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.
A. J. Cook -
This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
Faith Popcorn -
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
G. M. Trevelyan -
And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
A. A. Milne