Quotes About Name

I was trying to find a paradigm for "rock and roll values." I asked Jerry Garcia for advice on how big an organization should get. He said I should stop hiring people once I started not remembering everyone's name.

Harry Truman had no middle name, just an initial "S," which was a reference to his two grandfathers, Solomon Young and Anderson Shipp Truman.

If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.

Yo podría creer que nunca te he conocido si no supiera tu nombre

What was the name of the band?" Carella said. "I don't think it had a name. It was a pickup band." "It had a leader, didn't it?" "Well, he wasn't exactly a leader. Not the type anybody would want to be taken to, if you follow me.

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin

If you see my name on one more police report, you're going to put me under house arrest and sentence me to watch Martha Stewart Living 24/7.

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name." "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

You know how to spell that? G-U-Z-M-A-N. Don't you go spelling my name wrong, or I'll have to mess you up.

What is the world coming to, when you can't trust a whore named Snake?

The emperor (said Attila) has long promised him a rich wife: Constantius must not be disappointed; nor should a Roman emperor deserve the name of liar.

This process of accusation by the Commons at once acquired a name. In Norman French it was ampeschement: it meant embarrassment. Spoken in English it became: impeachment.

Our ancestors had a particular veneration for St. Maurus, under the Norman kings; and the noble family of Seymour (from the French Saint Maur) borrow from him its name, as Camden observes in his Remains.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

En el momento en que Leonor invocaba la piedad del cielo para Martín, éste, como los antiguos caballeros, se lanzaba a lo más crudo de la pelea, llevando en su pecho la imagen y en sus labios el nombre de Leonor.

If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Alcuin was my name: learning I loved.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Las sombras esconden varios puntos oscuros que giran y giran entre tus ojos mi pluma retarda el TÚ anhelante mi sien late mil veces TU nombre

Salzman percibió la invasión de otro pensamiento usurpador: ¿Es el azar el nombre de nuestra ignorancia o el universo contiene episodios impredecibles?

Dewey was obsessed with efficiency. He even changed his name from "Melville" to "Melvil" as a time-saving gesture and briefly even changed his last name to "Dui.

You see, I'm – a writer, A man, who calls everything by its name, And steals the aroma from a living flower.

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.