Name Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

  

  Wilhelm Rontgen
  • Shadow
  • Expression
  • Bones

• My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

  

  Aselin Debison
  • Character
  • Inspired
  • Name

• Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • Name
  • India
  • Get Used

• They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.

  

  Will Christopher Baer
  • Remember
  • Feel
  • Face

• I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Name
  • Engelbert
  • Humperdinck

• Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Fake
  • Campaign

• Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Boss
  • Doctor
  • Brandy

• When you walk on the road and people scream out your name, the high is unparalleled.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Road
  • Name
  • Scream

• We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Change
  • Income
  • Manager

• She said we got to get his name off the title.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Name
  • Title

• My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Princess
  • Constance Marie
  • Anti-princess

• Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Important
  • Song
  • Artist

• I hate the movies. For the past eight years, I have been making pictures – almost all of them terrible. When I first went into the movies, I felt that I had found a medium which would develop my acting ability. I wanted the experience, I have always loved to work. I made several pictures that were good. If you remember, in my first stories, I had considerable success. After that, I came to realize that it wasn’t my acting ability they wanted; it was just my name.

  

  Pauline Frederick
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Realize

• But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Mountain
  • Mistaken
  • Guards

• We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Name
  • Population
  • Prefer

• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Name
  • Word
  • Home Is

• Awkwardness, thy name is vampire.

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Name
  • Vampire
  • Awkwardness

• George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.

  

  George Michael
  • Friend
  • Child
  • England

• It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Art
  • Letters
  • MTV

• We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

  

  Ben Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Name
  • Ask

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