Name Quotes

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

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

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

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

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.

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

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.