Names Quotes

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.