Name Quotes

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.