Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go…

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the…

— Rick Riordan

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without…

— Hesketh Pearson

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

— Michael Sheen

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was…

— Bryan Adams

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more…

— Vinnie Jones

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.'…

— Katie Hopkins

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

— Gina Bellman

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow!…

— David Wenham

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

— Kesha

When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300,…

— David Tepper

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

— Avicii

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say…

— Ali Smith

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it…

— Kim Kardashian

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people…

— Colin Angle