Names Quotes - page 3

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. (Richard Branson)
I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. View quote
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A certain critic-for such men, I regret to say, do exist-made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained ‘all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy. (From preface) View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. View quote
Claude Bernard
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. View quote
Beatrix Potter
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. View quote
Alice Walker
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. View quote
Orson Scott Card
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
He said true things, but called them by the wrong names. View quote
Robert Browning
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right” a revolution was fought. (Octave Mirbeau)
Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name. View quote
Tom Petty
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction. View quote
Georg Brandes
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs. View quote
Ronald Dworkin
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. View quote
Mickey Spillane
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. View quote
George Chapman
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. View quote
George Burns
Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others. (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley)
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. View quote
Muhammad Ali
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. View quote
Thomas Mann
From the same it proceedeth, that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. View quote
William F. Buckley