Surnames Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and…
— Socrates
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Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.
— Russell Brand
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There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
— Christopher Hitchens
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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
— Nicholson Baker
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There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no…
— Lily Collins
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
— Anne Enright
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It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only…
— Julian McMahon
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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
— Rachel Weisz
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent…
— William Butler Yeats
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My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.…
— Thomas Ligotti
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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.…
— Victor Pelevin
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Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins.…
— Frank Beddor
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And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Harriet Jones: When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't smell like a fart, pardon the word, it's like something else. What is…
— Russell T Davies
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...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live…
— Muriel Spark
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After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant…
— Joe Dunthorne
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I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.†“What do you feel like, then?†“Hmmm.†She took a sip of her tea.…
— Julia Quinn
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There are no adjectives, no surnames, no explanations that can adequately describe Jesus. He cannot be defined as prominent because He is preeminent. He is…
— Randy Vader
Who Wrote These Surnames Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Surnames Quotes as follows: