Name Quotes
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I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.
Baaba Maal
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Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.
Tiger Woods
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Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.
Nancy Springer
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Marcel Proust
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When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
Steve Guttenberg
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As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
George Michael
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There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
Cary Grant
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If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
Steven Burd
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I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.
Erno Rubik
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Because if I break, they'll break too. It's a responsibility I'd never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo's actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can't.
Beth Revis
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My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way.
Ali Shariati
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
Sarah Mlynowski
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If I had to name my own sub-genre, I'd probably call it ska-folk because I think that sounds pretty cool, but that's a pretty narrow way to classify what I do as far as I can judge.
Chris Murray
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All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
Eddie Adams
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It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.
Carrie Jones
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Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
Thomas Carlyle
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What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.
Brandon Mull
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When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
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He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could bring him.
Connie Brockway
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So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.
Bill Barich
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It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara
Carrie Jones