Quotes on Name

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

Author: Joey Adams

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Author: Samuel Alexander

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

Author: GG Allin

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

Author: David Baltimore

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Author: Amiri Baraka

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.

Author: Majel Barrett

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

Author: Peter Benenson

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Author: Humphrey Bogart

It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

Author: Barry Bonds

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

Author: Susie Bright

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Author: Poppy Brite

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

Author: Helen Brown

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Author: Gavin Bryars

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Author: Warren Buffett

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Author: Lord Byron

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

Author: Luther Campbell

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

Author: Jim Capaldi

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.

Author: Pierre Cardin

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

Author: Pierre Cardin

My name is more important than myself.

Author: Pierre Cardin

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Author: Emile Cioran

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

Author: Robert Conrad

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Author: Doug Coupland

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

Author: Gray Davis

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

Author: James Denton

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Author: Jacques Derrida

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

Author: Bill Dickey

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

Author: Thomas Dolby

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Author: Henry Drummond

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Author: Crystal Eastman

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Author: Evan Esar

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Author: William Falconer

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Author: George Farquhar

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

Author: Bryan Ferry

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

Author: George Foreman

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

Author: James Franco

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

Author: Zsa Gabor

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Author: Richard Gallienne

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Author: Jeff Gannon

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Author: Elinor Glyn

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Author: Kenneth Grahame

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Author: Edward Halifax

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

Author: W. Harriman

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Author: Marilu Henner

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

Author: S. Hinton

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

Author: John Hooker

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Author: Bob Hope

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

Author: Claude Hopkins

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

Author: Kate Hudson

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Author: Rock Hudson

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Author: E. Hunt

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

Author: John Hunter

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

Author: Fannie Hurst

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Author: Aldous Huxley

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

Author: Michael Irvin

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Author: Michael Isikoff

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Author: Helen Jackson

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

Author: Famke Janssen

I want my name back.

Author: Richard Jewell

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Author: Elton John

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Author: Mike Judge

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

Author: Mike Judge

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

Author: Ben King

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

Author: Heidi Klum

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Author: Lee Krasner

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

Author: Nicholas Kristof

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

Author: John Lawson

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

Author: Geddy Lee

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Author: Tim Lee

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Author: John Lennon

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

Author: Jamal Lewis

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Author: Bai Ling

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Author: Lucan

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

Author: Bill Maher

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Author: Maxwell Maltz

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Author: Bob Marley

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

Author: Marc Maron

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Author: Willie Mays

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

Author: Mercedes McCambridge

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

Author: Norma McCorvey

My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.

Author: Harvey Milk

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Author: Ashley Montagu

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Author: Brian Mulroney

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

Author: Patrick Murray

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

Author: Dave Mustaine

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Author: Nelly

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

Author: Simon Newcomb

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Author: Kim Novak

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

Author: John Oates

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

Author: Andrew Oliver

It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.

Author: Sister Parish

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

Author: Nick Park

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Author: Andy Partridge

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

Author: Joe Paterno

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Author: Joe Paterno

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

Author: John Pearson

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

Author: Gregory Peck

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

Author: Joaquin Phoenix

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Author: Jon Postel

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

Author: William Prescott

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Author: Charley Pride

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Author: Manuel Puig

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Author: Anthony Quinn

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

Author: Man Ray

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

Author: Herbert Read

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Author: Carl Reiner

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Author: Buddy Rich

What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?

Author: Mickey Rivers

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Author: James Roosevelt

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

Author: Bertrand Russell

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Author: Jose Saramago

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Author: Martin Scorsese

I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

Author: Izabella Scorupco

That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?

Author: Bon Scott

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

Author: Dougray Scott

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

Author: William Shakespeare

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Author: Karl Shapiro

The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.

Author: Matt Sharp

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

Author: Matthew Shipp

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Author: Matthew Simpson

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Author: Anna Smith

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

Author: Dee Snider

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

Author: Carrie Snodgress

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Author: King Solomon

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Author: Mickey Spillane

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

Author: Mary Steenburgen

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Author: Joseph Stefano

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

Author: Patrick Stewart

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Author: Gloria Stuart

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

Author: Jim Sullivan

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Author: Max Sydow

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Author: William Thackeray

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Author: Charles V

And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.

Author: Alan Vega

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Author: Nana Visitor

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

Author: Christopher Walken

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

Author: Christiaan Wet

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Author: Ryan White

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

Author: Richard Widmark

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Author: Treat Williams