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Quotes About Names

Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?
~ Guillermo del Toro
Ik zou het op prijs stellen wanneer u deze namen uit uw hoofd leerde opzeggen, ook in omgekeerde volgorde.
~ Guus Kuijer
He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
And sometimes, when the bell rang for call-over, he would go to the window and look across the road and over the School fence and see, in the distance, the thin line of boys filing past the bench. New times, new names . . . but the old ones still remained . . . Jefferson, Jennings, Jolyon, Jupp, Kingsley Primus, Kingsley Secundus, Kingsley Tertius, Kingston . . . where are you all, where have you all gone to?
~ James Hilton
God was God's name just as his name was Stephen. Dieu was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said Dieu then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying. But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.
~ James Joyce
Bennett clan—Chrissy, three; Shawna, four; Trent, five; twins Fiona and Bridget, seven; Eddie, eight; Ricky, nine; Jane, ten; Brian, eleven; and Juliana, twelve—all
~ James Patterson
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.
~ Judith Viorst
If I can't get a unification fight, then there's other tops names, even though they haven't got a world title, ie Golovkins, stuff like that.
~ Callum Smith
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
~ Franz von Papen
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
~ Barack Obama
The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
~ Said Nursi
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
~ Debra Granik
The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.
~ Jim Nabors
I like to take pictures of my Starbucks cups because, while I don't think my name is that difficult, apparently it is!
~ Briga Heelan
My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.
~ Lizzo
Shamir and Nasir were my homeboys. They were from Philly and they're Muslim. I'm not a Muslim, but I liked their names. They were like, 'your name starts with an N, so just come up with Nahmir.' So I just put 'Nah' in front of 'Amir.'
~ YBN Nahmir
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
~ Robert Scoble
Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names - how can I say this? - the name plays more than the statistics.
~ Demba Ba
They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.
~ Josh Holloway
One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.
~ Thomas Hoover
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
People always ask if Burke and Caelum are brothers because they're both so tall, and neither Michael seems bothered by the question, but it drives me out of my mind because besides the height they look nothing alike. Burke's got blond hair and freckles. Caelum has a mass of dark pubic hair growing out of his head. Plus, how the hell could they be brothers when they have the same first name? That only works if your last one is Foreman.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Speaking of names, a word to parents: Stop using alternate spellings for your kids. Aimee, Eryn, Bil, Derik. You're only costing jobs. The whole customized-coffee-mug and key-chain industry. An entire generation is being robbed of their roadside-Florida-souvenir heritage. "Daddy, why don't they ever have my name? I see something close, but it's spelled different." "Sorry, honey, we decided to be pricks.
~ Tim Dorsey
Maybe it was their names, they thought. Stinky, Cheese-Dick and Ringworm.
~ Tim Dorsey