Name Quotes
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I must admit that when I chose the name, 'vitamine,' I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.
Casimir Funk
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Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
Epictetus
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury
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Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers…for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.
Amy Poehler
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Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.
Ken Casey
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling
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Behold this little Bane – The Boon of all alive – As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.
Emily Dickinson
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Blasphemy is just the fanatic’s name for criticism.
Stéphane Charbonnier
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
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I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.
Eloisa James
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Never sign a valentine with your own name.
Charles Dickens
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I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.
George Zimmerman
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My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.
Natsuki Takaya
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She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
Rumi
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
Catherynne M. Valente
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He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.
Anton Cermak
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The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.
Erich Honecker
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
Bono U2
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And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.
Gary North
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I'd be up for the 'Bond' theme, and I'd put my name forward for the lead role. If they want a wee, chubby guy from Scotland, then I'm their man.
Lewis Capaldi
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The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.
Eugene Sue
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In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!
Pablo Picasso
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Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.
Tim Ferriss