Names Quotes · Page 128

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child.…

— Stjepan Hauser

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I…

— Neil Gaiman

As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change…

— Brad Wilkerson

'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets…

— Roger Zelazny

I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because…

— Anonymous

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

— Philip Zimbardo

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it,…

— Chirlane McCray

[T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch…

— Rush Limbaugh

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new…

— Ming-Dao Deng

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but…

— William Ellery Channing

I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so…

— Stephanie Seymour

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

— John Mulaney

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name.…

— Craig Ferguson

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing…

— Jodi Picoult

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.…

— Michael Anti

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child…

— Katie Hopkins

I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've…

— Taylor Swift

In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are…

— T. B. Joshua

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for…

— Peter Cameron

Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family…

— Frederic Morton

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading…

— C. S. Forester

Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different…

— Steven Pinker

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will…

— Brooklyn Decker

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

— Ramana Maharshi

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

— Robert Southey

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply…

— Swami Vivekananda

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

— Joel Hodgson

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

— Ambrose Bierce

I can see you being set free, saved, healed, blessed - in the name of Jesus Christ!

— T. B. Joshua

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in…

— Ann Beattie

I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them…

— Lars von Trier

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to…

— Haile Gerima

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise…

— John Gay

“all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of…

— Henry Hazlitt

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

— Barbara Corcoran

We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.

— Kin Hubbard

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized…

— Paul Auster