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Name Quotes


"[on naming their band, the Butthole Surfers] Oh no, no regrets at all. My..."

Full 'Paul Leary' Quote   Source: Paul Leary
"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they..."

Full 'Wyndham Lewis' Quote   Source: Wyndham Lewis
"A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs...."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes..."

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out"

Full 'Fannie Hurst' Quote   Source: Fannie Hurst
"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."

Full 'George Farquhar' Quote   Source: George Farquhar
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

Full 'George Santayana' Quote   Source: George Santayana
"what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even"

Full 'Harry Potter' Quote   Source: Harry Potter
"generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce..."

Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote   Source: Jim Morrison
"wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

Full 'Rita Mae Brown' Quote   Source: Rita Mae Brown
"his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities..."

Full 'Mel Brooks' Quote   Source: Mel Brooks
"horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes."

Full 'Oscar Wilde' Quote   Source: Oscar Wilde
"your enemies, but never forget their names."

Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote   Source: John F Kennedy
"the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how..."

Full 'Albert Einstein' Quote   Source: Albert Einstein
"ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names...."

Full 'Alice Walker' Quote   Source: Alice Walker
"Humanism is the name which seems to be increasingly favoured for the..."

Full 'Royston Pike' Quote   Source: Royston Pike
"I am sorry, Mother. I named your anger. A woman's anger is not supposed to..."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"I can name you a hundred intellectual reasons why I oppose the death..."

Full 'Steve Earle' Quote   Source: Steve Earle
"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first..."

Full 'Spike Lee' Quote   Source: Spike Lee
"I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got"

Full 'Zsa Zsa Gabor' Quote   Source: Zsa Zsa Gabor
"would mind if I drew stars around his name"

Full 'Bob Talbert' Quote   Source: Bob Talbert
"money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling..."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have..."

Full 'Madonna' Quote   Source: Madonna
"up the paper and read the obits If my name is not in it, I know I'm not..."

Full 'Studs Terkel' Quote   Source: Studs Terkel
"through baseball as "a player to be named later.""

Full 'Joe Garagiola' Quote   Source: Joe Garagiola
"have one of those little beds with my name on it...."

Full 'Jack Handy' Quote   Source: Jack Handy
"afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name...."

Full 'Geraldine Ferraro' Quote   Source: Geraldine Ferraro
"If he had an Italian last name, they would've electrocuted him. [on Bill"

Full 'John Gotti' Quote   Source: John Gotti
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say..."

Full 'John Burroughs' Quote   Source: John Burroughs
"If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at..."

Full 'Louis Farrakhan' Quote   Source: Louis Farrakhan
"I'm thinking of changing my name. I think JIM is just a little too..."

Full 'Jim Carrey' Quote   Source: Jim Carrey
"and they may marry and have children named, Charter, Honour, Innocence,..."

Full 'Joseph Cubby' Quote   Source: Joseph Cubby
"doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard...."

Full 'David Letterman' Quote   Source: David Letterman
"they owe that they are now or have - name..."

Full 'Nathaniel Hawthorne' Quote   Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach..."

Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote   Source: Louisa May Alcott
"such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a..."

Full 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn' Quote   Source: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"exactly where your camp is and what its name is...."

Full 'Jon Stewart' Quote   Source: Jon Stewart
"know if they call somebody out there a name, if they disrespect a woman, if..."

Full 'T.I.' Quote   Source: T.I.
"not understand the word. God is not the name of anything other than a..."

Full 'Thomas Vernon' Quote   Source: Thomas Vernon
"know about Conan the Barbarian - - he named me after an early Celtic..."

Full 'Conan O'brien' Quote   Source: Conan O'brien
"My name can't be *that* tough to pronounce."

Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote   Source: Keanu Reeves
"too crowded with angels-- we know their names, they number a thousand for..."

Full 'Tom Hanks' Quote   Source: Tom Hanks
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."

Full 'William Cowper' Quote   Source: William Cowper
"Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called"

Full 'John O'Hara' Quote   Source: John O'Hara
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Full 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn' Quote   Source: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant"

Full 'Evelyn Waugh' Quote   Source: Evelyn Waugh
"Overcome the devils with a thing named love."

Full 'Bob Marley' Quote   Source: Bob Marley
"Pick an eclectic Irish name and fuss your hair. It works, it really does."

Full 'Conan O'brien' Quote   Source: Conan O'brien
"Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate..."

Full 'Elizabeth Drew' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Drew
"Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are"

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"being at 'Cheers.' Everybody knows my name...."

Full 'Monica Lewinsky' Quote   Source: Monica Lewinsky
"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain..."

Full 'Georg C. Lichtenberg' Quote   Source: Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the..."

Full 'Homer' Quote   Source: Homer
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the..."

Full 'Horace' Quote   Source: Horace
"knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will..."

Full 'Norman Thomas' Quote   Source: Norman Thomas
"The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there"

Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote   Source: Margaret Atwood
"The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers"

Full 'Edward F Halifax' Quote   Source: Edward F Halifax
"legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a"

Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote   Source: Benjamin Disraeli
"The name for their profits is democracy."

Full 'Phil Ochs' Quote   Source: Phil Ochs
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good,..."

Full 'John Stuart Mill' Quote   Source: John Stuart Mill
"power of society is based on the namer of names."

Full 'Stokely Carmichael' Quote   Source: Stokely Carmichael
"versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets...."

Full 'Philip Sidney' Quote   Source: Philip Sidney
"To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass."

Full 'Imamu Amiri Baraka' Quote   Source: Imamu Amiri Baraka
"To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason."

Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote   Source: Gustav Flaubert
"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"Until I was thirteen I thought my name was 'Shutup'."

Full 'Joe Namath' Quote   Source: Joe Namath
"ages before we have existence, and a name...."

Full 'Charles Lamb' Quote   Source: Charles Lamb
"mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy..."

Full 'Mahatma Gandhi' Quote   Source: Mahatma Gandhi
"individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called."

Full 'John Stuart Mill' Quote   Source: John Stuart Mill
"popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from"

Full 'Desiderius Erasmus' Quote   Source: Desiderius Erasmus
"What people are capable of doing in the name of money."

Full 'Kim Basinger' Quote   Source: Kim Basinger
"When people put my name next to Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm"

Full 'Mark Mcgwire' Quote   Source: Mark Mcgwire
"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"

Full 'Lily Tomlin' Quote   Source: Lily Tomlin
"now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction...."

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"Yes, it's true that my name is more well-known because of it, but I'm not..."

Full 'Antonella Barba' Quote   Source: Antonella Barba
"You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that..."

Full 'Sammy Davis Jr' Quote   Source: Sammy Davis Jr
"You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you"

Full 'Deborah Boliver Boehm' Quote   Source: Deborah Boliver Boehm
"practice with a pair of tights and the name Lynn at an all-boys school......"

Full 'Lynn Swann' Quote   Source: Lynn Swann
"guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a..."

Full 'Richard Gere' Quote   Source: Richard Gere