Name Quotes

• The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Civilization
  • Relation
  • Passions

• To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Forget
  • Name
  • Looking

• I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Magic
  • Name
  • Rubik’s cubes

• 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.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Problem
  • Illness
  • Syphilis

• 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.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • World
  • Family
  • Uncles

• A good education is another name for happiness.

  

  Ann Plato
  • Education
  • Happiness
  • Name

• My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Language
  • Story
  • Long Time

• There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Love
  • Name
  • My Heart

• Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Perfect
  • Name

• Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reality
  • Service
  • Name

• I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • Name
  • Used
  • Involved

• Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.

  

  Normandi Ellis
  • Heart
  • Name
  • Who You Are

• The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will just make your day.

  

  Edward James Salisbury
  • Name
  • Read
  • First Thing

• I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Promise
  • Name
  • Desert

• Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Happy
  • Poet
  • Works

• New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • New York
  • Name
  • Hyperbole

• Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

  

  Prince
  • Life
  • Changed
  • Prince

• In politics, name recognition matters a lot.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Politics
  • Name
  • Recognition

• It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Name
  • Word
  • Mouths

• Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Experience
  • Name
  • Forgotten

• The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

  

  Nicky Oppenheimer
  • Army
  • Name
  • Sign

• I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Hard
  • Name

• 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
  • Thought
  • Her
  • Status

• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Name
  • Repentance
  • Aspiration

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