Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
~By Robert Morley ~
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
~By Daphne du Maurier ~
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
~By Herb Ritts ~
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
~By Ian Williams ~
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
~By George Santayana ~
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
~By Gordon Sinclair ~
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
~By Alan Bullock ~
I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
~By Piper Laurie ~
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
~By Lily Tomlin ~
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
~By Eric Bristow ~
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
~By Edmund Barton ~
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
~By Gregory Corso ~
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
~By Michael Isikoff ~
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
~By Debbie Harry ~
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
~By Davy Crockett ~
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
~By Betty Buckley ~
Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.
~By Phil Harris ~
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.
~By Dennis Flanagan ~
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
~By George III ~
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.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
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.
~By Barry White ~
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
~By Amiri Baraka ~
I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
~By Nelly ~
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
~By Vance Havner ~
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
~By Pam Grier ~
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.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
~By Alicia Keys ~
Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.
~By Retief Goosen ~
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
~By Sylvia Browne ~
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
~By John Pearson ~
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
~By Janos Kadar ~
My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
~By Matthew Shipp ~
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
~By Van Morrison ~
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
~By John McEnroe ~
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.
~By Matt Sharp ~
Silence is an ornament for women.
~By Sophocles ~
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
~By Melina Mercouri ~
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
~By Charles MacArthur ~
Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.
~By Judy Biggert ~
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
~By John Strachan ~
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
~By Edmund Burke ~
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
~By George Clooney ~
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
~By Donald Johanson ~
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
~By Julius Caesar ~
I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
~By Raymond Floyd ~
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
~By Barack Obama ~
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
~By Milton Berle ~
I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
~By Colin Firth ~
We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.
~By Greg Ginn ~
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
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. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.
~By Sharon Gless ~
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
~By Lincoln Ellsworth ~
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
~By Ben E. King ~
We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
~By William Westmoreland ~
I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
~By Bill Dickey ~
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
~By Beau Bridges ~
You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.
~By Luther Campbell ~
One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
~By Jo Brand ~
When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?
~By Phil Donahue ~
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 of definition with many things.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
~By Bill Maher ~
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.
~By Alan Vega ~
I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.
~By Howell Raines ~
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
~By Les Claypool ~
I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.
~By Dee Snider ~
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
~By George W. Bush ~
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