Names Quotes
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Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.
C. S. Lewis
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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
Catharine MacKinnon
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Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
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I taught myself to name my name,
W. D. Snodgrass
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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.
Esmeralda Santiago
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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
Lao Tzu
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To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names.
Bohumil Hrabal
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What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
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I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
Anderson Cooper
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I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
Andre Kertesz
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
Hedy Lamarr
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.
Fabio Novembre
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
Kanye West
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The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay. Do you know why? Because we wanted them to know that they were about to get boned in the ass.
Carlos Mencia
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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
T. S. Eliot
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Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.
Bill Oberst Jr.
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Next thing you know, the hoe starts to ill, She says "I love you, Harold" and your name is Will!
Slick Rick
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I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
Malachy McCourt
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The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.
Iamblichus
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
William Shenstone