Names Quotes · Page 53

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

— Brian Francis

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

— Claude Nicollier

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different…

— Dean Koontz

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war…

— Dennis Kucinich

I'm beginning to think my name has been changed to 'Damn it' or 'Asshole'” Styxx

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going…

— Michaela Watkins

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,

— Colin Farrell

Oh thank you, Jesus." "It's Roarke." He tapped a finger on Eve's head. "You really shouldn't forget your own husband's name.

— Anonymous

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were…

— Elvis Costello

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one…

— Saadi

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name…

— Henry Miller

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face…

— Stonewall Jackson

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the…

— Lenny Bruce

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

— Stephanie Seymour

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it…

— John Ruskin

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up…

— Stan Lee

When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know…

— Martin Buber

We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity -…

— Bill McKibben

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest…

— Misty May-Treanor

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum…

— Jamie Bamber

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that…

— Anonymous

I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and…

— Samuel Alito

...what I love about Ann Coulter is that she's sort of the-she's sort of a version of myself in that she absolutely…

— Bill Maher

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

— Elbert Hubbard

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

— Debby Ryan

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

— Jean Lorrain

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

— Paul Ryan

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

— Edith Konecky

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

— Harry Mulisch

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

— Elizabeth Olsen

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

— Christopher Hitchens

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

— Alexander Wang

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

— Kristin Cashore

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

— Corey Clark

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

— Paris Hilton

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

— Matthew Sweet

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

— Raphael Lemkin