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Quotes About Named

There's a cave in this hinterland of Siberia, called Denisova, named after an eighteenth-century eremite called Denis who lived there.
~ Adam Rutherford
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.
~ Louise Mensch
When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me to get to 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
~ Tim Burton
war in Bastogne. I saw Europe from a truck with our gun towed behind. We'd named ours Joe
~ Ravi Howard
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
~ Laozi
[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.
~ Ernest Hollings
He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.
~ Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
~ Robert Jordan
Adirondacks must sit in those uncomfortable wooden chairs with the seats tilted so deeply backward that your knees sprang up like a ventriloquist's dummy as the wood pressed into the back of your thighs. Otherwise, why would they be so named?
~ Ann Beattie
We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell—" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.
~ Lewis Carroll
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
~ Casey Stengel
Malta," he said, and smiled. "Possibly the most annoying young female I've ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?
~ Robin Hobb
I've heard the story about the theft of the pearl many times," said Millie. "If it's the same pearl, my mother was the witch who took it. Do you know if the two sea witches were named Pearl and Nastia Nautica?
~ E.D. Baker
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
~ Maika Monroe
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
~ Lao Tzu
Anakin named the droid C-3PO, choosing the number three because he considered the droid the third member of his family after his mother and himself.
~ Ryder Windham
Fine, you fun-vampire. I'll take my scroll over here and play by myself. (Kat) Fun-vampire? What is that? (Sin) That would be you sucking all the fun out of life. (Kat) You have the most interesting terms for things. (Sin) Yes, but notice mine are creative, unlike the so stellarly named Rod of Time. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.
~ Ron Reagan
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
~ Craig Venter