Armstrong Quote by Agatha Christie

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name

— Claude C. Hopkins

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

— Peter Morgan

“My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like "How did…

— Connie Willis

“When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child’s middle name. Much more interesting…

— J. Maarten Troost

I have been very intentional about being very meticulous about everything I put my name on.

— Alex Cooper

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if…

— John Mellencamp

I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of…

— Andie MacDowell

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes…

— Alan Rickman

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has…

— Dorothy Parker

“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”

— J.R.R. Tolkien