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Quotes About Name

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
~ Marlena De Blasi
VALENE: Father Walsh, now... COLEMAN: Father Walsh, Father Walsh... WELSH (exiting, screaming): Me name's Welsh!!!
~ Martin McDonagh
Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union." "Texas, I think." "I was not and am not sure which;
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!
~ Arthur Miller
I did not recognize the shape of my own name.
~ Audre Lorde
Sedan du sålunda fått ditt erkännande av utlänningen, så har du fått ditt namn här hemma naturligtvis och jag slipper gå längre och skämmas för dig.
~ August Strindberg
HEDLEY: He would not call me King. He laughed to think a black man could be King. I did not want to lose my name, so I told him to call me the name my father gave me, and he laugh. He would not call me King, and I beat him hard with a stick.
~ August Wilson
I slipped on a turtleneck, laughing when my head became stuck in the turtle part. If they weren't called turtlenecks, I wouldn't have worn them.
~ Augusten Burroughs
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
~ Austin Grossman
She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.
~ Ayn Rand
and he said her name to fill the space of five years.
~ Ayn Rand
We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't "Becoming." It is "I Am." Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.
~ Stasi Eldredge
No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experience? Yes, there will be sorrow too—it's a part of the deal—but life gets the final word. Life. Life always gets the final word. Every single time. Forever. Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name!
~ Stasi Eldredge
BAILIFF (cautiously): Sir, his name's El-Fayoumy. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What? BAILIFF: You called him El-Fajita. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Just gimme my glasses! BAILIFF: You're wearing them, sir.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
It is important to say sir at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
~ Stephen Fry
I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
~ Stephen Fry
Well, there is one thing. Perhaps you could change the child's name." "Change his name?" said Amphitryon. "How would that help?" "If you were to call him 'Hera's glory' for instance? 'Hera's pride.'" And so it was decided. From now on Alcides would be called Heracles.
~ Stephen Fry
The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.
~ Stephen King
Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.
~ Stephen King
Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that.
~ Stephen King
I scratched the word HELLO in small letters. ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy.
~ Stephen King