Name Quotes

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

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

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.