Name Quotes
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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
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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
Norma McCorvey
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When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.
Bonnie McFarlane
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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
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I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
Topher Grace
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
Claude Monet
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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
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I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.
Varg Vikernes
Burzum
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I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up, it doesn't necessarily need to be a record, it could be film related, it could be book related, it could be anything.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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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
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When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
Esperanza Spalding
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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
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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.
Walt Whitman
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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.
Eloisa James
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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
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Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.
Normandi Ellis
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In politics, name recognition matters a lot.
Cenk Uygur
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
Ada Louise Huxtable
