Names Quotes · Page 52

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

— Rachel Caine

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

— Vivienne Westwood

I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name.

— Prince Royce

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

— Thorstein Veblen

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

— Deb Caletti

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

— Plato

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

— Ken Griffey, Jr

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning

— Dakota Fanning

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying…

— Mark Twain

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the…

— Bob Sanders

To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit…

— Fatos Nano

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life…

— Richard Dean Anderson

If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but…

— Anuj

Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the…

— Peter Shepherd

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions,…

— Roger Scruton

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…

— Salman Rushdie

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to…

— Karen Russell

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or…

— Nick Cave

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is…

— Walt Whitman

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for…

— Aleister Crowley

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is…

— Laozi

By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does…

— Paul Reiser

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine…

— Sammy Hagar

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

— Max Carver

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

— Gene Hart

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

— Joey Jordison

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

— Sheri L. Dew

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

— Rick Perry

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it…

— Kenny Perry

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

— Palmiro Togliatti

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means…

— Joseph Campbell

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

— Edward Dmytryk

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

— Carson Daly