There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party… — Antonio Villaraigosa Copy Share Image
A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning -… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got… — Julian McMahon Copy Share Image
People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means… — James Goss Copy Share Image
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll… — Tamara Ecclestone Copy Share Image
And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark's top 20 surnames ends in '-sen,' meaning… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't smell like a fart, pardon the word, it's like something… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“And does Alan have a last name?" I asked. "Probably," said Curtis, "but we have a 'if you have to ask, you… — Aldous Mercer Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
