Quotes About Name

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Johnny Nitro was like Johnny Hollywood, Johnny Danger, Johnny Blaze... it's just an obvious stage, Hollywood name. But John Morrison is more like a real person.

I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

If I use my credit card... and they go, 'Oh my gosh, there's Lisa Frank who makes the stickers!' I go, 'Isn't that the craziest thing, that I have the same name?'

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.'

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father - they've all put a lot into their legacy and for me to carry that on, it's a lot of weight on my shoulders.

My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.

I got the name from my grandma because when I was a baby, she used to call me jittery. I used to move around real fast.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

A lot of people think that my last name is Gray. My middle name is Gray, and my last name is Beech.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.

Ever since I was a kid, I've been a Fender connoisseur. And to have my name associated with greatness like that, it's amazing. I couldn't be more proud of anything. My children, and then being associated with Fender. In that order!

Darian is a Greek name, and my grandson is definitely going to be a Greek God, just like his grandfather.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I'm very happy to be a part of.

The gun has a name, made up of words and numbers. A measurement in millimeters, a decimal point, all befitting a precision instrument. 'Call it a rifle', I was told... But it is a gun.

I suppose you could call me...Soot, said the thing. Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name. Eaten it? asked Suzy. Why eat soot? Boredom, said Soot.

He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger. Unusual name, commented Mogget. More of a bear's name, that growl.

My name is Clariel,' she said very clearly. 'Abhorsen, please help me die the final death. We must hurry, before she comes.