Quotes About Name
During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
~ Max von Sydow
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They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.
~ Emo Philips
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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
~ Robert Browning
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God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it.
~ Kevin Daniels
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God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
~ John Piper
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I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
~ Lisa Loeb
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Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.
~ Miranda Otto
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Love, so many People use your Name in vain.
~ Musiq
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God is a name we give to love.
~ Nancy Pickard
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Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name
~ Beverly Cleary
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The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched on the diners' knees when food was served. Over time, the word board came to signify not just the dining surface but the meal itself, which is where the board comes from in room and board. It also explains why lodgers are called boarders.
~ Bill Bryson
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The one thing he didn't do was discover the comet that bears his name.
~ Bill Bryson
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Sharkey was from Boston, the son of Lithuanian immigrants who had endowed him with magnificent strength and a name that no one could spell. It was variously rendered in official records as Zuhauskay
~ Bill Bryson
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Curiously, the one service room not named for the products it contains is dairy. The name derives from an Old French word, dey, meaning maiden. A dairy, in other words, was the room where the milkmaids were to be found, from which we might reasonably deduce that an Old Frenchman was more interested in finding the maid than the milk.
~ Bill Bryson
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Nor can we be entirely confident how he pronounced his name. Helge Kökeritz, author of the definitive Shakespeare's Pronunciation, thought it possible that Shakespeare said it with a short a, as in "shack." It may have been spoken one way in Stratford and another in London, or he may have been as variable with the pronunciation as he was with the spelling.
~ Bill Bryson
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I was beginning to learn that my responsibility of being a representative of Jesus Christ would not allow me to do anything that would dishonour His Name. And He was also teaching me that one's actions spoke louder than words when it came to witnessing for Christ.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
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I opened Will's Bible and translated part of the ninth Psalm: " 'I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
~ Bo Caldwell
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Piranesi. It is what he calls me. Which is strange because as far as I can remember it is not my name.
~ Susanna Clarke
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in the middle of all the static, I heard a familiar name clear as A on the piano in the middle of all the tuning instruments of an orchestra.
~ Sylvia Plath
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His name was Cal, which I thought must be short for something, but I couldn't think what it would be short for, unless it was California.
~ Sylvia Plath
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I fought and fought to free myself as from the weight of a name that could be a baby or could be a malignant tumor; I knew not. I only feared.
~ Sylvia Plath
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special preference to "an automobile manufacturer incorporated in Delaware on October 13, 1916." That would be General Motors, although the name of the firm does not appear.
~ T.R. Reid
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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
~ T.S. Eliot
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