Quotes About Name

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

Raoul, she said, forget THE MAN'S VOICE and do not even remember its name... You must never try to fathom the mystery of THE MAN'S VOICE.

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

Certainly a man who dies in the flower of his Excellency when he is sure of his good name, has the greatest honor; then he brings no shame upon himself or upon his friend. Therefore his friend should be happier that he died in such circumstances then if he had died when his name had grown pale with age and his accomplishments were all forgotten Theseus

People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for what they desire any one else to do.

Sleazy. An abbreviated form of silesia. A linen that took its name from Silesia in Hamborough, and not because it wore sleasy (1696). A piece of Slesey (1706).

The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.

Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

The Laker brand and name itself is fantastic. When you have a guy like Kobe Bryant in that brand also, it takes it out of this world. I think the fact that everybody sees the work ethic this guy has makes them work harder.

Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.

The Getty family is thrilled to resume control of Getty Images, a business that bears our name and one we strongly believe in.

There's a lot of really good players in the draft and we're all looking to make a name for ourselves at the next level. I guess we'll find out 10 years down the road and there's gonna be discussions throughout time about it, but we can't control that.

The way I became 'Lil Tracy' was Nedarb was throwing away his old clothes, then there was this old Tracy McGrady jersey. I put it on and I was like 'I'm Lil Tracy!'

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.

I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

For all a rhetorician's rulesTeach nothing but to name his tools.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.

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.