Named Quotes

817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors

We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit. — Julia Barr
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against… — John Steinbeck
If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at… — George Carlin
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named… — Paul Dickson
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named;… — Rene Daumal
Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It’s a Nigerian word and it’s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me,… — Ledisi
Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation! — Caedmon
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. — Robert A. Heinlein
My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone… — Peter Fonda
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
I’ve named everything that I’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 Bequerel’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

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