Name Quotes

• I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Name
  • Native

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Give

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Greatest
  • Accident
  • Inventors

• The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Mistakes

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.'

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Name
  • Countries

• She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Jesus
  • Name
  • Sins

• Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Name

• Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Gay
  • Queen
  • Interpretations

• My mother gave me a Muslim name because she "was fascinated by Arabia,"

  

  Ibrahim Ferrer Afro-Cuban All Stars
  • Name
  • Arabia

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Women
  • True
  • Slavery

• I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.

  

  Avi
  • City
  • Sister
  • Twin

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic, I have a disease and they don't know what to call it.

  

  Eminem
  • Know
  • Disease
  • Alcoholic

• It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Live
  • Jesus
  • Name

• I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Fight
  • Name

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Gold
  • Find
  • Name

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Vote
  • Ironic

• 'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'

  

  Walter Scott
  • Name
  • Glory
  • Maiden

• The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Words
  • English
  • Agreement

• Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

  

  Man Ray
  • Name
  • Simply
  • Documents

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