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Quotes About Name

This man on sixteen people's directories was named Alexander Gordius.
~ Dean Koontz
Libby hears her name wrapped in the louder sound, attenuated and distorted—"Liiiiibeeeee
~ Dean Koontz
Moloch. That's the code name that Ringrock's masters of science have given to the subject of their research
~ Dean Koontz
He was so entranced, he was so charmed, so captivated-rolled out flat, dreamed into, shone upon-that when she said his name, English started to live.
~ Denis Johnson
child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.
~ Desmond Tutu
James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, I said, spacing the words, formally, the way Jamie had spoken them to me when he first told me his full name on the day of our wedding.
~ Diana Gabaldon
More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Wakefield's not my own name, see; the Reverend gave it me when he adopted me. He was my mother's uncle—when my parents were killed in the War, he took me to live with him. But my own name is MacKenzie.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The tooth had belonged to a gentleman named Murphy from Ellis Ward, the one we lived in. I say "had belonged" because I had the badly broken and infected bicuspid out of Mr. Murphy's head before he could have said Jack Robinson, though he was in such pain that he could barely recall his own name, let alone Jack's. Mr.
~ Diana Gabaldon
This is the grimoire of the witch, Geillis. It is a witch's name, and I take it for my own; what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become. And
~ Diana Gabaldon
neighborhood—his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' 
~ Diana Gabaldon
I am happy with my name. It is such an attraction, and it makes people laugh.
~ Tiger Shroff
I never dropped my surname.
~ Prateik Babbar
I wasn't always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil - not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn't call me Virgil.
~ Dusty Rhodes
You know that Sajid Khan is a brand name and that you will get a family entertainer from him. I will never change that.
~ Sajid Khan
I always knew that if I built my name up as an entity, that would be bigger than me just rappin'.
~ Paul Wall
People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.
~ Emily Ratajkowski
The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.
~ Lois Frankel
My beloved Jay, remember me. Call my name every day. If you think of me and are with me, The infinite power of your min will never leave you. You have me. I will love you forever. I will be with you forever and ever. I am your hope. I am your soul.
~ Ilchi Lee
Christ is not only the name of an historical personage but a reality in our own lives."32 He uses the term "christophany" to indicate that each person bears the mystery of Christ within.
~ Unknown
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
~ Ilka Chase
Second, there is a general tendency to think that the NAME itself can evoke, invoke, and provides what might be called conscious cognitive mental access INTO the conceptual realities that have been named as things-in-themselves. This MAY be workable depending on what is involved, but it tends to be unworkable if conceptual realities are NOT discrete things-in- themselves.
~ Unknown
Literature is necessary to politics above all when it gives a voice to the one who doesn't have a voice, when it gives a name to the one who doesn't have a name, and especially to all that political language excludes or tends to exclude…Literature is like a ear that can hear more than Politics; Literature is like an eye that can perceive beyond the chromatic scale to which Politics is sensitive.
~ Italo Calvino