Names Quotes

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.