Name Quotes
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
Ildar Abdrazakov
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My mother gave me a Muslim name because she "was fascinated by Arabia,"
Ibrahim Ferrer Afro-Cuban All Stars
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
Man Ray
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
T. E. Lawrence
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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
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
Nancy Duarte
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
Nancy Roman
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride
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I remember so well the day that you came into my life. You asked for my name, you had the most beautiful smile.
Gary Valenciano
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
Carine Roitfeld
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
Ian Anderson
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
Malcolm X
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
Safra A. Catz
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
J. K. Simmons