Names Quotes · Page 226

As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled…

— Richard Clayderman

“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have…

— Ben Marcus

We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any…

— Jerry Rice

I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria…

— Petria Thomas

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project,…

— Sarah Dessen

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace…Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God…Dropping…

— Mary Baker Eddy

I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads…

— Robert Loveman

“And on that note, why are they called the No Name Mountains?” Moore continued as he stoked the fire, poking at it…

— Abigail Roux

When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems…

— Dwight Yorke

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises -…

— David Lynch

Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I…

— Lauren Kate

Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the…

— Carlos Barrios

And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the…

— Dorianne Laux

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was…

— Beth Ditto

Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:…

— Thomas Hobbes

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since…

— A. R. Rahman

As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize…

— Bobby Jindal

Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor…

— Harry Bruno

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out…

— Isaac Hayes

Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When…

— Dakota Fanning

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of…

— Del LaGrace Volcano

He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I…

— George Michael

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of…

— Paulo Coelho

If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in…

— Andrew Johnson

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud…

— Anne Frank

I actually knew Sully's sister, and I was in a band called Stripmind, and then I became roommates with Sully and being…

— Robbie Merrill

“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane,…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

The point in the report is that you shouldn't say to somebody just because they're Jewish, you must have an opinion on…

— Jeremy Corbyn

They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that…

— Dante Alighieri

Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, Lord Infamous and Crunchy [Black]. The name of the group is Da Mafia 6iX. So like I said…

— DJ Paul

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And…

— Alan Moore

I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their…

— Leslie Feinberg

That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and…

— Steve Toltz

Don't try to do this by yourself: to become a good yogi you need a teacher. Find a teacher you can bow…

— Sharon Gannon

“Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not…

— Samuel Beckett