Quotes about names
names people mind
Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers Stephenie Meyer
names roles sentences
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them. Stephen Amell
names long stories
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. Stephen Chbosky
names important lasts
It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.
names dry want
I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping. Stephen Colbert
names pet goldfish
And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.
names years byron
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. Thomas B. Macaulay
names sight speech
The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight... Thomas Hobbes
names doctrine changed
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. Thomas Love Peacock
names differences different
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. Thomas Jefferson
names people adhesive
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
names intellectual needs
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute. Raymond Williams
names life-is enigma
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.) Victor Hugo
names forget
My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. Veronica Roth
names identity mankind
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. Vachel Lindsay
names people dying
The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. Utah Phillips
names games strivers
Down time is not the name of the game. Usher
names two talking
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. V. S. Naipaul
names arrogance polite
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite. Susanna Clarke
names lips locks
My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat. Suzanne Collins
names broken want
Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.
names twelve
Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.
names government likes
No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it. Stephen King
names interesting campaigns
If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things. Stephanie Seymour
names answers shapes
What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it. Starhawk
names world body
To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.
names today achilles
Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today. Stan Lee
names brands bits
I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
names fats fallen
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. Stephen Vincent Benet
names letters source
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters. Rick Riordan
names cassius brutus
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre. Tacitus
names done motion-pictures
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. Shirley Jones
names goal target
You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it. Ray Bradbury