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Quotes About Name

I parked in the basement, then took an elevator to the lobby where I went through a metal detector and gave my name to a guy who looked like he ate a Pontiac for breakfast. Then I took another elevator up to seventeen.
~ Robert Crais
In the Lord's Prayer the believer, with the phrase May thy name be made holy, calls for a demonstration of the holiness of God. That is, the worshiper is saying, May God again demonstrate his holiness. This in turn expresses a willingness to participate in Isaiah's dramatic experience.
~ Kenneth E. Bailey
Cowardice, thy name is Harriet.
~ Keri Arthur
If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It had struck her as comically officious then, hearing his full name uttered.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. "Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!
~ Kim Harrison
I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.
~ Kim Harrison
Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy. His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?
~ Kim Harrison
Shakespeare It is fair, though hardly very important, that to say or imply that the man of this name is not our greatest writer marks a second-rate person at best.
~ Kingsley Amis
Shakespeare It is fair, through hardly very important, that to say or imply that the man of this name is not our greatest writer marks a second-rate person at best.
~ Kingsley Amis
There have been so many times I felt like I've ended the conversation lately I've decided that if I had a Wu Tang name it'd be Threadkilla.
~ Kirk Curnutt
If I happened to find a diamond one day, I would call it Dagny, because the very sound of your name thrills me. I only wish that I could forever hear your name, hear it spoken by all men and beasts, by every mountain and every star. I wish I were deaf to every sound except your name ringing in my ears day and night for the rest of my life.
~ Knut Hamsun
What's your name?" "What do you want it to be?" "Are you a vampire?" "Not the last time I checked.
~ Kresley Cole
You'll strip in front of a vampire when you don't even know his name?" "You're right! So what's your name?" "My answer will be as forthcoming as yours. What do you want it to be?" "Some kind of name that fits a battle-scarred, overgrown vampire warlord.
~ Kresley Cole
The practice of the Name turns us in the direction of the light. The practice of the Name removes the dust from our eyes so that we can see the world as it really is: lit up by the light of the guru.
~ Krishna Das
In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
~ L. Frank Baum
The name is Salvatore. As in savior.
~ L.J. Smith
The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K Games for the past years, they finally passed off on it. They finally okayed it.
~ Bill Goldberg
Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
~ Erwin McManus
Prophecy is True and Sacred and should never be mishandled by people who have no business speaking about Sacred Things in GOD'S Name.
~ Errol Anthony Smythe.
The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.
~ Hank Williams III
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
~ Jess C Scott
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Sky, wait." The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless