Name Quotes

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safely say that a five-second burst of conversation while you're scribbling your name, over and over, is not the most reliable way to bond with Americans.

~ Gwen Ifill

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

~ Carl Hiaasen

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

~ Zara Larsson

I do think it's getting better, but I have noticed that Asians are not well represented in awards shows, and not a ton of Asian faces on the big screen either. Perhaps some of the young Asian actors who are on TV series now will be seen in upcoming movies in the near future - Jamie Chung, Constance Wu, Suzy Nakamura, to name a few. Fingers crossed.

~ Lauren Tom

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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.

~ Todd Gitlin

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

~ Julia Cameron

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

~ Jimmy Choo

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

~ Meghan Markle

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

~ Randeep Hooda

Pond's is a name that everyone is familiar with, and I know that I can trust them when it comes to skincare.

~ Amy Jackson

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

~ Monica Johnson

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

~ Steve Zahn

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

~ Said Nursi

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

~ Johnny Depp

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

~ Rita Rudner

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

~ Paula Poundstone

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

~ Barry White

Art? That's a man's name.

~ Andy Warhol

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

~ Jesse Jackson

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

~ Morrissey

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

~ Thomas Jefferson

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.

~ Tony Garza

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

~ Robert Downey

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

~ Pierce Brosnan

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

~ Vince Vaughn

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

~ Laverne Cox

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

~ Henry Knox

My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.

~ Kevin Rudd

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

~ Nikki Sixx

I remembered, like, when 'Not When My Daughter' came out, I'm serious, I think dating for Iranian men became a lot harder. Dude's name, Shahrokh - became Tony. Mehsud became Mike.

~ Maz Jobrani

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

~ Joe Frazier

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

~ Rachel Nichols

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.

~ Alec Baldwin

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

~ Ralph Nader

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

~ Gaston Bachelard