Name Quotes
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Its name-what passes not away.
Lao Tzu
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One thing's certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won't be in the chapel choir, now will he?
Colin Welland
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Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand.
Dan Pallotta
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I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.
Carrie Jones
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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
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I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.
Steve Jobs
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
Colonel Sanders
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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
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The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
Jean-Philip Grobler
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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Rickey Henderson
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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
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
Confucius
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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
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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
Linda Ronstadt
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It's a catchy name. We didn't want to call ourselves anything too traditional. If we had called ourselves the something-or-others we would have been just another group in the crowd.
Steve Clark Def Leppard
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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
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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
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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
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When I think of your name, I feel an ache.
Carrie Jones
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It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
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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
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
Alan Alda