Name Quotes

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

~ Faith Evans

'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.

~ Geraldine Page

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

~ Walter Koenig

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

~ Harvey Milk

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

~ Serj Tankian

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

~ Rachel Weisz

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

~ Serj Tankian

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

~ Martin Heidegger

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

~ John Stuart Mill

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

~ Alexander The Great

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

~ David Wilkerson

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

~ James Roosevelt

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

~ Walter Savage Landor

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

~ Charles Hodge

Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.

~ Marc Guggenheim

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

~ Alex Berenson

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

~ Yoko Ono

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

~ Ramakrishna

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

~ Woody Allen

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

~ Linus Torvalds

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

~ Ambrose Bierce

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

~ Marie Curie

I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

~ John Gallagher

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

~ Joel Hodgson

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

~ Alexander Theroux

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

~ Milton Berle

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

~ Christopher Columbus

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

~ Steven Spielberg

I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.

~ Trisha Yearwood

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.

~ Francois Hollande

I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.'

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

~ Edward Everett Hale

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

~ Marilyn Manson

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

~ Raoul Peck

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

~ Geoff Dyer