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Quotes About Title

Still, he was your father." "Actually, in my mind at least, he had lost that title. It's not supposed to be simply granted, Puller, because a sperm happened to hit an egg. You have to earn it. He chose not
~ David Baldacci
Each work's title is followed: by either its year of completion, or by 'B.S.,' designating undated completion before Subsidization;
~ David Foster Wallace
But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has 'Vanity Fair' for a title, and that Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
~ William Shakespeare
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief
~ William Shakespeare
Not I; I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly.
~ William Shakespeare
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name. Vileness is so: The property by what it is should go, Not by the title.
~ William Shakespeare
The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.
~ William Shakespeare
Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands. Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.
~ William Shakespeare
a novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn't such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography, it sounds banal, and in a few languages it was changed to Seduction.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I have found the title of the book as impossible to forget as the poems in it were impossible to remember.
~ Clive James
Bob is just my name, Bobby is my job.
~ Hermann Hesse
In Peru, for instance, people formed agricultural cooperatives to buy estates from their old owners and to convert them into housing and industrial settlements. Because there are no easy legal ways to change land tenure, farmers in state-owned cooperatives illegally subdivided the land into smaller, privately held parcels. As a result, few if any have valid title to their ground.
~ Unknown
I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still 'President So and So,' no matter who's currently in office.
~ Holly Black
Hemingway signed the contract, and got up from the couch. Then he said, "Never ran as no genius, but I'll defend the title again against all the good young new ones.
~ Unknown
Kevin nació en 1984… Un año muy temido, como recordarás; y, aunque yo me burlaba mucho de todos aquellos que se tomaban en serio la arbitraria elección de George Orwell para título de su obra, esa fecha marcó para mí el inicio de una tiranía.
~ Lionel Shriver
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
~ Cate Blanchett
You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.
~ Callum Smith
And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Never name it after yourself. Maybe we'll throw a with in there. That seems to work. Like Late Show With David Letterman.
~ Jon Stewart
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
~ Keith Urban
I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck.
~ Killer Mike
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
~ Andre Agassi
And long gone are the days when a paperback meant a Penguin, pure and simple, let alone when a paperback publisher could confidently market a product with no image at all on the cover - just the title and the author's name, emphatically lettered. Beautiful.
~ Penelope Lively