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Quotes About Names

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
~ Rupert Brooke
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.
~ William Butler
I never gossip, but I can give you the names of certain people who do.
~ Judy Hampton
Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. These nicknames are pissing me off. But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is. It's my damn name. And now I have to pee. It's like my bladder has to prove something. Pee at the bank. Consider it a deposit.
~ J.D. Robb
God, he even knew their names. Rhage. Phury. And that scary-ass Zsadist guy. Yeah, no Tom, Dick, and Harry names for the vampire types. But come on, could you actually imagine some lethal bloodsucker named Howard? Eugene?
~ J.R. Ward
I have two younger brothers. They are twins and their names are Bryce and Payton.
~ Kyle Carpenter
All we need to remember is that Trump loves the hate. He thrives on criticism and insults. He delights in chaos and confusion. Taking to Twitter to call him names only fuels him and riles his base.
~ Omarosa Manigault Newman
One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.
~ John Darnielle
I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.
~ Derrick Wolf
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
~ William Penn
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.
~ Jimi Hendrix
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
~ Tad Williams
All this time she hadn't known that "blue" was actually seven distinct shades, each with its own names- azure, Prussian, cobalt, cerulean, sapphire, indigo, lapis. She pressed the waxy pencils on the paper, amazed by the emerging hues: the ornaments curving on the Armenian vase were lapis; the purplish contours of the Jerusalem mountains were shrouded by indigo evening clouds.
~ Talia Carner
All my life, I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
I like the Indian casino names - Pechangas - Morongos. They all sound like women's breasts.
~ Ted L. Nancy
When I was growing up, in this country, I would use the name Hillary and in Spain, I would use the name Hilaria.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
~ Emmylou Harris
I was an art history major and I really love art. I wanted to give them artist names. 'The Ninja Turtles' happen to have artist names as well and they work in both Spanish and English.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
My real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, so a lot of people don't know that, but Rose is kind of special in my family as my grandma's name is Rosemary, my mom's name is Mary Rose, I'm Amanda Rose, my niece is Demi Rose.
~ Mandy Rose
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
~ Heinrich Himmler
I have filed multiple defamations where my wife's name is mentioned relating to any of my personal battles. It's incorrect and the media needs to realize they can't scandalize and spoil names every time just because an individual is married to a celebrity.
~ Raj Kundra