Named after my mother.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

— Sprague Grayden

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just…

— Madonna Ciccone

My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger,…

— Suzanne Collins

“Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow".…

— Sloane Crosley

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson

I'd like an omelet named after me.

— Rufus Sewell

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class…

— Jesse Stone

“He pulls the gun away from his head and sets it on the coffee table. He wonders who first called it a coffee table.…

— Ryan David Jahn

It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'

— Penn Jillette

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…

— John Updike

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

— Gary Sinise

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta…

— Justin Chon

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community.…

— Scott Haze

I named my guitar Joan after Joan Baez.

— Rachel Zegler