Named Quotes · Page 5

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

— Stana Katic

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

— Penn Jillette

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

— Kevin Spacey

It is an incredible honor to be named the Colts' Walter Payton Man of the Year.

— Pat McAfee

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

— Gary Sinise

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”

— Julie Orringer

There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

— Brian Posehn

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

— Lionel Messi

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“The ship name. It’s unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone’s kid or the girl they left…

— James S.A. Corey

My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the…

— Lark Voorhies

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of…

— Steve Nguyen

“I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and…

— Vince Vaughn

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we…

— Roy Wood

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who…

— Elliott Bisnow

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

— Jess Walter

The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a…

— Stuart Immonen

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,…

— Stephen Kinzer

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation…

— Dale T. Mortensen

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named…

— M.I.A

“How do you find a name?" "In this case, on a shampoo bottle. It's one of the ingredients; Sodium Laureth Sulphate. He…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“Our group name is the Muses," Calli said. Zeus smiled. "I like that. The Muses, Goddesses of the Arts and Proclaimers of…

— Farrah Rochon

“because after what I’ve been through, stuff on Mars should be named after me.”

— Andy Weir

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

— Dan Jenkins

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

— Thom Yorke

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

— Tom Lehrer

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

— Jane Lynch

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

— Fannie Hurst

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

— Dick Dale

“Cats never liked to admit to names. Being named might lead to being held responsible for something.”

— Garth Nix

“I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.”

— Andy Weir

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

— Larry Holmes

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

— Sheryl Swoopes

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

— Hannibal Buress

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

— Keanu Reeves

I hope Hong Kong isn't just named Hong Kong but it can still be the Hong Kong we desire.

— Joshua Wong

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

— Joe Gebbia

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends…

— Ice T