Name Quotes
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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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I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?
Ethan Canin
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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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Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.
Steve Clevenger
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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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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
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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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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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My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.
Sarah McBride
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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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It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.
Steven Sinofsky
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He just wanted to be left alone and maybe have people get his name right if they had to talk to him.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle
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Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.
Ernst Junger
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It has built a strong name for itself and it's a very advertising-friendly platform.
Bob Wright
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
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Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.
Nick Hodgson
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Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
Eugene Ionesco
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When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.
Brenna Yovanoff
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I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.
Eve Arden
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I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
Elizabeth Wein
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People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.
Bill Bright
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If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.
Anne Bronte