Named Quotes

817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named… — Unknown Author
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. — Edward Dmytryk
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named… — Peter Dinklage
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless. — Emma Donoghue
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They… — Eric Dickerson
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the… — Charles Frazier
I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and… — Henry Bromell
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and… — Jennifer Egan
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood. — David James Elliott
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I… — Jimi Hendrix
The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on… — Peter Sagal
I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni. — Little Richard
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a… — Johnny Cash
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old… — Anna Quindlen
I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was… — Jarvis Cocker
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge… — Peter Fonda
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent… — Sharon Gless
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix. — Carrie Ann Inaba
Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared… — Vinod Khosla
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown. — Sally Kellerman
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices… — Charles Petzold
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be… — Jonathan Lethem
However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At… — Sean Hannity
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… — Lysander Spooner

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