Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

Tacitus

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.

Shirley Jones

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

Ray Bradbury

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.

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Slash

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

Rajneesh

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Sojourner Truth

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

John Milton

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

Misha Collins

I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

Miguel de Cervantes

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Marie de France

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Merle Haggard

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Michael Keaton

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Evita Peron

I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

Erma Bombeck

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

Erma Bombeck

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

Erin Hunter

My name is Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish I was one!

Florence Welch

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

Florence Welch

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

Florence Nightingale

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

Fatima Siad

I want to make a name for myself.

Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

Famke Janssen

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Ezra Taft Benson

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Eve Hewson

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

Eve Best

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

Francis Chan

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

George Santayana

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.