Name Quotes

7649 Name quotes by 4442 unique authors

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB. — Thom Yorke
The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing… — Thom Yorke
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money… — Robert Silverberg
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual… — Michael Moorcock
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS… — B. B. Warfield
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a… — Brian Aldiss
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do. — Heidi Klum
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy… — Petrarch
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so… — Taslima Nasrin
I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976.… — Mike Tyson
There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my… — Mike Tyson
Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels. — Glenn Beck
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership,… — Dan B. Allender
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government… — Meg Whitman
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? — Mercedes Lackey
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling… — Richard Baxter
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us! — Mahmoud Darwish
And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything… — Mark Strand

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