Name Quotes

America is another name for opportunity.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

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

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

All actors have to change their name.

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

The devil's name is dullness.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.