Name Quotes

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.

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

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

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.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?