Top 1200 Name Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

If you only fight people with no name, you will have no name yourself.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

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

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

My ring name is 'Bullet,' which was given to me by Pavel. It's, like, tradition for your coach to give you your fight name. There's a superstition that says if your fight name matches who you are as a person, it will give you a lot of success in your fighting career.

Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

A middle name is an opportunity to represent you, and what better name for an Anglo-American child than London?

I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

My last name is Szekely. Sounds like Saykay. When I was a little kid I had an instructor in camp who called me Shnizneckely. He would make fun of my name and it hurt my feelings because I was a little pussy and I cried. He said, 'Well, how do you say it?' I said, Seekay. So he wrote 'C.K' on my jersey and everything. He made my name 'C.K' and I just stuck with it.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

It is not proper to name them, but in a number of countries, in the name of democracy, all decisions are made by one person.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.

To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.