Name Quotes · Page 23

You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.

— Ted Cassidy

In the late eighties, we decided to rework the 1979 hit 'El Lute' and name it 'Mandela.'

— Liz Mitchell

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

— King Princess

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

— Doug McClure

My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name.

— Mike Espy

My name means a lot to me. It's become like a drag name now, which doesn't minimize the meaning - it just…

— Chappell Roan

I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in…

— Nasim Pedrad

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those…

— Parvathy

When Ariana Grande was starting out, everyone was like, 'You're just like Mariah Carey!' She inspires me so much because she just…

— Grace VanderWaal

I really don't think the success Michael has had, or Janet, has made It harder for me. In many ways it really…

— Rebbie Jackson

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one…

— Ismail Merchant

“Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better,…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as…

— Grant Shapps

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and…

— Roger McGuinn

“God's ultimate purpose for creating you is not for you to go to heaven. If the purpose for your creation was just…

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one…

— John Irving

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are…

— Narendra Modi

I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't…

— Andie MacDowell

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits -…

— Amy Chozick

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no…

— Karin Slaughter

Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Adrian Neville, who's my best friend, I rode with him on the road. He was the most crisp, athletic, poignant guy -…

— Enzo Amore

When it's your own name that is the business, the business never stops.

— Nita Strauss

“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.”

— Thompson's Chain Reference

I don't really like being asked how I feel about being a 'household name.'

— Melissa Leong

I think Aleister Black is the most Tommy End name you will get within WWE and NXT.

— Aleister Black

I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then.

— John Schnatter

Cycling always receives a bad name. It's always cycling that's attacked and other sports are never attacked.

— Eddy Merckx

I got the name from my grandma because when I was a baby, she used to call me jittery. I used to…

— J.I.D

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

— Joan Smalls

“With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time”

— Adam P. Knave

In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.'

— RM

Very few people rise that high, to be a performer known as only one name. Caruso... Valentino... Hitchcock... Garbo.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

When I got the name 'The Franchise,' the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul…

— Shane Douglas

The first dog I got was a border collie. Her name was Sally.

— Matthew Broderick

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm more likely to quote the golfer George Burns than the legendary late comedian by the same name who lived to be 100.

— Jim Nantz

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

— Chuck Palahniuk