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Quotes About Name

I'm Joanna but you can call me Jo if you wish. I've always wanted someone to call me Jo. It's sounds so dashing, don't you think?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
It's such a dissonant name. Brid-get. Brid-get. Brigitbrigitbrigit. It almost sounds like a birdcall. One of those irritating birds that live in bushes and chirp repetitiously and ruin ones picnic. Not that I go on many picnics. Brigitbrigitbrigit.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The man's name tag read SLY LILYHANDS
~ Elizabeth Moon
Blake Lost his temper. But they didn't do anything to you, did they? He inquired savagely. When they heard your Southern accent and your Southern name, they put you in a cell to think over your poor taste in lovers, patted you on the head, and let you go. You loved this man, Tony, or at least you led us to believe you did. The honorable thing for you to do is hear what he has to say.
~ Ellen Kushner
Another very serious mechanism of identification is found in language. A) Thus we have only one name, say 'apple' for the: (a)un-speakable, un-eatable event or scientific process; (b) the un-speakable but eatable abstraction of low order, the object; (c) the un-speakable and un-eatable 'mental' picture, or higher order abstraction, on semantic levels; (d) and for a definition on verbal levels.
~ Alfred Korzybski
Ah God, that love were as a flower or flame, That life were as the naming of a name, That death were not more pitiful than desire, That these things were not one thing and the same!
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
David did not have any show ideas about diners, but he knew never to say no while pitching a television executive. "Sure," he extemporized, dreaming up a name on the spot. "I have Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.
~ Allen Salkin
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).
~ Ally Carter
They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
~ Alvin Lee
L'horreur des circonstances exacerbait son orgueil. « Mon nom vaut plus que du chocolat », pensait-elle.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
~ Leonard Bacon
Here's the best place that people can find me: go to this website called Google, and then type my name into it. So much stuff.
~ Baron Vaughn
People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.
~ Rebel Wilson
Paes is very a convincing person and had informed me that Gandharva wedding was enough. My name was added in his passport as spouse.
~ Rhea Pillai
The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.
~ Judge Reinhold
Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
~ Kim Novak
There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.
~ Andrew Forrest
Pond's is a name that everyone is familiar with, and I know that I can trust them when it comes to skincare.
~ Amy Jackson
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
~ Phaedrus
The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.
~ Robert Hilburn
I have a dog. It's an English mastiff called Dolly. Her middle name is Poppy.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
There is no positive outlook about Shawn Kemp in Seattle. When that name is mentioned, it brings nothing but negativity.
~ Shawn Kemp
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?
~ Albert Claude
Being that my name is attached to Disney, especially when it comes to social media, I always have to be careful with what I post.
~ Skai Jackson