Named Quotes

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We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide… — John F. Kennedy
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to… — Stephen Metcalf
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as… — Julia Glass
Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's. — John O'Hara
Iâ€™ve named everything that Iâ€™ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes… — Amy Sedaris
People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear.… — Dan Farmer
In Paris, friend of Bequerelâ€™s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty… — Simon Newcomb
I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair. — Howell Raines
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for… — Dan Jenkins
The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final — Lawrie McMenemy
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its… — Mike Harding
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. — Jimmy Breslin
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he… — Jimmy Breslin
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her… — Mel Tillis
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race! — Ernest Hemingway
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful… — Orison Swett Marden
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies… — Richard Dawkins
My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was… — Nicholas Ray
I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and… — Sigurd F. Olson

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