Quotes About Names

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

Bolor-Erdene urged Dinah to address her as Bo. She was obviously of Far Eastern stock, and yet there was something in her eyes and cheekbones that did not look precisely Chinese. Dinah's preliminary googling had already told her that Bo was Mongolian. Yuri

He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.

The moon had broken up into seven large pieces, which inevitably became known as the Seven Sisters, and an uncountable number of smaller ones. Gradually the big ones acquired names. Doc Dubois was responsible for many of these. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.

These men, of course, have names and lives, but Daniel has forgot the former, and has no interest in the latter.

they were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them.

a combinatorial explosion of name cards and introductions...

Three quarks for Muster Mark!" One thing quarks do have going for them: all their names are simple—something chemists, biologists, and especially geologists seem incapable of achieving when naming their own stuff.

After the deaths of some pontiffs, Osporco, a Roman, succeeded to the papacy; but on account of his unseemly appellation, he took the name of Sergius, and this was the origin of that change of names which the popes adopt upon their election to the pontificate.

Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

People named their kids after me!

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.