Name Quotes · Page 18

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

— Steven Berkoff

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

— Kesha

My name is a form of an Irish/Gaelic name that means 'Red King.'

— Rory MacDonald

The more success you have, the more attention and the more spotlight comes to your name.

— Saquon Barkley

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

— Shana Alexander

I do not wish to slander his name, I think Netanyahu ran the country well but his time is up.

— Benny Gantz

Cybill Shepherd's mother - her name is Patty - is a good friend of mine.

— Georgia Holt

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

— Ivan Toney

I've got to keep my name out in the public eye. That's how you get more fans, and the more fans you…

— Johny Hendricks

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in…

— Anthony Yarde

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the…

— Charles de Lint

I was always Little Doc. And in the sixth grade I was the worst player on the team. People said I was…

— Austin Rivers

The British fashion industry had major players, Mary Quant and Biba to name but a few, who were making incredibly stylish and…

— Dawn O'Porter

My dad had a dominoes team, and there was a Frank Skinner in it. When I was a kid I used to…

— Frank Skinner

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

— David Walton

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

— Jay-Z

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the…

— Charles Kelley

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get…

— Tim Harford

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or…

— E. L. Konigsburg

My mom has always said that you have to do other things besides going to school, other extracurricular activities, so she made…

— Cheryl Burke

I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in…

— Suzanne Collins

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the…

— Jason Bonham

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and…

— Andy Behrman

I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about…

— Twinkle Khanna

Human diseases are the same as they were a thousand years ago, but doctors have given them more expensive names.

— Vikrant Parsai

My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.

— Willam Belli

Anybody I play, I don't really focus on the name or anything, about the person. It's just so much the ball.

— Coco Gauff

My name is Carmella, and I'm the moonwalking, trash-talking princess of Staten Island.

— Carmella

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

— Bentley Little

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

— Steve Hilton

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm…

— Megan Fox

All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

— David Fahrenthold

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

I've experienced cyberbullying my entire life due to just having a last name that people knew.

— Noah Cyrus

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

— Denny Laine

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

— Maria Brink

You meet people and go, 'We're going to be friends forever!' then you get home and can't even remember their name.

— Emily Berrington

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing…

— Roxane Gay

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

— Nikita Thukral