House Quote by John Mellencamp

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name

— Claude C. Hopkins

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

— Claude C. Hopkins

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many…

— Herman Melville

I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a…

— Liam Cunningham

Genealogists concentrate on the meanings and origins of surnames because they are inherited and the easiest way of identifying people who are related. Judith…

— Judith Land

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role…

— Amanda Warren

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either…

— David Walliams

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you…

— Sophie Hannah

The surname's definitely not been a help, that's for sure, but it's got no relevance to me at all. That's my name, I've always…

— Kasper Schmeichel

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal…

— Jacques Barzun

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…

— Lily Collins

The only thing my famous last name got me was a foothold in the industry. That was the easy part. The biggest problem is…

— Fahadh Faasil