Names Quotes · Page 211

I stretched out my hands as if to ward him off. “Not yet. I want to know what your end game is…

— Jeaniene Frost

I longed to know the world's name.

— Robert Penn Warren

My boyfriends going to college so I made him tattoo my name on his foot so I know he's mine

— IU

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

— Sylvia Porter

He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however,…

— Emma Goldman

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

— Toni Morrison

Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build…

— James F. Hoge Jr

Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought…

— Charles M. Schulz

There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake…

— Pom Klementieff

President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary…

— Tina Fey

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire…

— Alice Hoffman

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came…

— Nicolas Cage

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument…

— Anne Lamott

My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

— Big Daddy Kane

Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what…

— John Singer Sargent

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists…

— Joseph Addison

She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because…

— Eva Longoria

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

— Iris Murdoch

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more,…

— Bram Stoker

Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for…

— David Berg

It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I…

— James Weldon Johnson

The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name…

— Edward James Salisbury

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are…

— Krista Tippett

I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some…

— Jerry Perenchio

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be…

— Dwight L. Moody

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an…

— Hannah Arendt

It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.

— Jon Stewart

At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized…

— Cassandra Clare

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…

— Mark Twain

It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five…

— Bill Cosby

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot…

— Missi Pyle

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for…

— Demetri Martin

Excellence is the name of the game...

— Judith Jamison

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in…

— Jacques Barzun