Name Quotes

• I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Attack
  • Pheromones
  • Hone

• I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Responsibility
  • Bills
  • My Parents

• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Terrible
  • Refused
  • Right words

• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  

  Arthur Cleveland Bent
  • Name
  • Coat
  • Bluebird

• Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Projects

• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Fascinate

• It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Name
  • Publishing company
  • Nine Music

• One thing's certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won't be in the chapel choir, now will he?

  

  Colin Welland
  • Choir
  • Chapel
  • Abrahams

• Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Name
  • Rampant
  • Eclecticism

• Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

  

  Artemas Ward
  • Name
  • Sustained
  • Appellation

• No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Phenomenon
  • Creates
  • No Doubt

• Its name-what passes not away.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Away
  • Passes

• We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Name
  • Queen
  • Scratch

• Roberta, meanwhile, had brown eyes, a pointy chin, and absolutely perfect posture when she sat without fidgeting in a grown-up chair and a clean white dress. With both girls, their parents had hoped for a boy and picked out a name in advance.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Parents
  • Boy
  • Hoped

• He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Name
  • Wrong

• I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Proud
  • Name
  • Restaurants

• People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

  

  Niki Tsongas
  • Name
  • Lived
  • Bearing

• If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Name
  • Requirements

• I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

  

  Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Name

• The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

  

  Rickey Henderson
  • Name
  • Only
  • Certificate

• When I think of your name, I feel an ache.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Feel
  • Your
  • Ache

• I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Sea
  • Name
  • Memory

• On her UNICEF work: I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Children
  • Mother`s
  • Graves

• Every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Name
  • Worth
  • Plot

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