Name Quotes
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For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.
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The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
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What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
