Names are what define us. Names are what tell our story…

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I…

— FM-2030

Real names, kill things, that's that shit I won't write. Cause my niggas still selling dope like they ain't on they're third strikes.

— Pusha T

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

— Philip Zimbardo

“A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. ‘For one thing it would take a long while: my name…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

— Claude C. Hopkins

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name

— Claude C. Hopkins

“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to…

— Saul

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

— Linda Ronstadt

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

— Frank Iero

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will…

— Bill Johnson