Names Quotes

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

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.

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

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.'