Names Quotes · Page 64

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

— George Harrison

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

— Gayle King

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods,…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

— A. J. Jacobs

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

— Tim Burton

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you…

— Mickey Rivers

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

— Eddie Van Halen

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's…

— Etgar Keret

I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along…

— Dale Watson

Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider" Claire: "You're insane." Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my…

— Rachel Caine

People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and…

— Jay Leno

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that…

— J. K. Rowling

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something…

— Marjorie M. Liu

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible…

— Phil McGraw

It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different…

— Nathan Parsons

In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing…

— Peace Pilgrim

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done…

— Charles Spurgeon

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy…

— John Kiriakou

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their…

— David Rockefeller

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was…

— Leonard Cohen

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been…

— John Constable

Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let…

— Brian X. Foley

But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy…

— Rick Riordan

They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.

— Gerald Morris

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we…

— Voltaire

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

— James M. Barrie

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

— Betty Friedan

I have been sexist before. I have called girls names. I have gone with the misogynist flow.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation

— Phife Dawg

“If this interpretation of nashamah by the rabbis is right ... then it is naming that creates soul.”

— Anne Hamilton

Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche.

— Surya Das

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

— John Hancock

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need…

— Neil Gaiman

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

— Christopher Rice

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

— Mike Judge

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

— Patrick Stewart