Named Quotes

817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New… — Jake M. Johnson
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a… — Yul Vazquez
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him… — Ogden Nash
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. — Francesca Lia Block
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for… — Gayl Jones
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:… — Ambrose Bierce
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting… — Damien Hirst
I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII. — Casper Van Dien
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,… — Paul the Apostle
The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not… — David Letterman
If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights,… — Charles Fort
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. — Ambrose Bierce
I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his… — Domhnall Gleeson
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow… — Art Donovan
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political… — Hunter S. Thompson
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,'… — Daniel Alarcon
People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad… — Zach Galifianakis
My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va.,… — Henry Louis Gates
Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid… — Matt Groening
I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dynasty' range, named after various characters.… — Joan Collins

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