Quotes About Name

In any case, HaShem had spared me from that bloody palace. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

That's my real name. That's not like a gimmick or anything, that's my government name, Tierra Whack.

I decided I wanted to use my real name 'Tierra Whack' when I decided I wanted to make music my career.

I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

I've been getting Obagi prior to my being an endorser because my dermatologist prescribes the brand and I always like it, knowing Obagi is a well-trusted name, of quality and is safe to use.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. And I'd walk around with it. People would say, 'Hey, there's that Apollo kid.' That's where the name generated from.

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

The thing about 'Fable' is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It's all about Fable and Albion and this idea of legends and humor.

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

It's funny, because when I went down to the combine for the interviews with teams, Charles Haley is the name that came up a lot as a comparison to the way I play. A lot of people said that I reminded them of him, and that's a great honor.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.