Name Quotes
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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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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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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
Alan Alda
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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
Evan S. Connell
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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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We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.
Steve Lukather Toto
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My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
Aselin Debison
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.
Constance Marie
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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
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Awkwardness, thy name is vampire.
Chloe Neill
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When I think of your name, I feel an ache.
Carrie Jones
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Shall we continue to bear his name in vain? … Shall we not represent that name to the world?
Ellet J. Waggoner
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However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.
Barbara Holland
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She said we got to get his name off the title.
J. M. Roberts
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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
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There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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When we allow ourselves to feel these painful feelings, give them an accurate name, and when we share the grief with safe and supportive others over time, we are able to complete our grief work and thus be free of it.
Charles L. Whitfield