Name Quotes
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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.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.
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When did a name ever change what someone is?
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Each one of these bodies art-works Arp made certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.
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What a fuss for a name: famous or not, it's only a ribbon tied around a sack randomly filled with blood, flesh, words, shit, and petty thoughts.
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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.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Always remember your kid's name.
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I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.
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Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.
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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.
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Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
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All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
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I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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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.
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Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.
