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Quotes About Name

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
~ Richard J. Foster
And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they're pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny.
~ Richard Kadrey
Lucifer was his name in Perdition. In Heaven, he's Samael.
~ Richard Kadrey
Elliot? Your vampire's name is Elliot? What's his last name?' 'I don't know. He's never said. But even Elliot might not be his real name.' 'Why would anyone make up a name like that?
~ Richard Laymon
Ark, he was called. His real name was Hyath Arkajanian, and he was Armenian or Lithuanian or something, I couldn't remember for sure
~ Richard S. Prather
I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?
~ Richard Siken
Your name like a song I sing to myself, your name like a box where I keep my love, your name like a boat in the sea of love—O now we're in the sea of love!
~ Richard Siken
Your name like two X's like punched-in eyes, like a drunk cartoon passed out in the gutter, your name with two X's to mark the spots, to hold the place, to keep the treasure from becoming ever lost.
~ Richard Siken
Apology" A word sticks in the wind's throat; A wind-launch drifts in the swells of rye; Sometimes, in broad silence, The hanging apples distill their darkness. You, in a green dress, calling, and with brown hair, Who come by the field-path now, whose name I say Softly, forgive me love if I also call you Wind's word, apple-heart, haven of grasses.
~ Richard Wilbur
what's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want you to tell me." Rose. Rose Hathaway." Do you know your birthday?" Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?" Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,
~ Richelle Mead
Ivashkov," she repeated, her face the picture of serenity. "My name is Sydney Ivashkov.
~ Richelle Mead
Ma'am?" She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. "Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne." "Melrose," I corrected. "Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia." "Well, my first name is Sydney," I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.
~ Richelle Mead
But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.
~ Richelle Mead
My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess.
~ Richelle Mead
It wasn't possible that one person could make you experience so many emotions at once, that one person could trigger a universe of feelings, simply with the sound of your name.
~ Richelle Mead
I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?' 'My name is Sophie,' Sophie said, hardly
~ Roald Dahl
we might have expected a fishy story from a man with a name like haddock, goff said.
~ Roald Dahl
To name is to order, to participate, to partner with God in taking the world somewhere.
~ Rob Bell
I would rather link my name indelibly with the living pulsing history of my country and not be forgotten entirely after a while than to have anything else on earth
~ Robert A. Caro
to the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Dewar's and water," I said. "Yes. I don't care really, but everyone at work says if you don't order by name they give you bar whiskey.
~ Robert B. Parker
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
~ Robert Browning
Does the Great Colinski have a first name?" "Royal. Such a name, don't you think? Royal Colinski from East L.A." The burner vibrated in my pocket, but I was learning too much to stop. "Why
~ Robert Crais