Name Quotes
A name carries more history than it seems.
These quotes explore names from a few sides - living with a name that carries an unusual meaning, the messy improvised way band names actually get chosen, and the pride of having your name tied to a brand you believe in. See I Am Quotes for related themes.
I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
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If the people in the emergency room didn't know my name, they definitely knew my face because I was in there, like, every other week. I was one of those kids.
I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.
I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point...
The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.
We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters;...
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