Name Quotes

• Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wish
  • Name
  • I Wish

• I wanted to take on my full name, which was sort of a crazy thing to do considering that we're in Hollywood.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Crazy
  • Name
  • Hollywood

• I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Remember
  • Name
  • Theater

• Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • Gold
  • Ready
  • Discard

• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Recording
  • Touring

• From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Origin
  • Antiquity

• Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • American
  • Mother
  • Child

• You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name.

  

  Paul Young Mike and the Mechanics
  • Name
  • Entrepreneurial

• I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Famous
  • Name

• What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Originality
  • Designate

• Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Heart
  • Sadness
  • Pictures

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Told
  • Tao

• He stole my music but he gave me my name.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Name
  • Stole

• What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Name

• You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Losing
  • Walk

• There is no timetable to changing the name of the ballpark. No decisions have been made about what the name will be.

  

  John Britton
  • Decisions
  • Changing
  • Timetable

• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  

  Steve Garvey
  • Care
  • Name
  • Ballplayer

• The name is also connected with living in New York in this really weird time. People are constantly waiting for something bad to happen. I wrote these songs and formed this band to make sure I didn't get overcome by that sense of fear. That's what this band is about -- standing tall and not being afraid.

  

  Sam Endicott The Bravery
  • New York
  • Name
  • Connected

• Actually Maddy is my name. But I feel that whenever you address somebody, there needs to be certain amount of dignity rendered to it - irrespective of whether it's a film star or somebody you are fond of. I find it very pleasing when somebody refers to me as 'Mr. Madhavan' or 'Sir' or 'Mr. Maddy.'

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Name
  • Film Star
  • Refers

• To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Free
  • Name
  • Gift

• America has been another name for opportunity.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Sick

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