Name Quotes

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.
Jennifer Lopez

Stupid, Off, She

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
Ang Lee

Destiny, Light, Keep

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

Car, Wanted, Wants

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
Henry Louis Gates

God, Mom, Black

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt

Action, Attached

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
Louis C. K.

Hurt, Everybody, Wants

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
Jerry Lewis

Pain, Heart, Tomorrow

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz

Nature, Show, Purpose

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
George M. Cohan

Care, Long, Spell

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill

Life, Father, Through

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan

Science, Spiritual, Mind

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
William Morris

Men, Fight, Battle

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything, Words, Beyond

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
Imelda Marcos

Change, Great, Father

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Rita Mae Brown

Education, Wonderful, Pay

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
Joe Namath

Thought, Shut, Till

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
Jack Welch

Talk, Culture, Jerks

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

Religion, True, Single

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.
Colin Firth

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
Elizabeth Edwards

Husband, Son, Took

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
Anne Lamott

Mother, Husband, Someone

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
Alice Cooper

Woman, Makeup, Original

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence Sterne

Writing, May, Different

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
Kesha

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein

Thought, Product, Calvin

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome

Action, Attached

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
Brad Pitt

Said, Movie, Betty

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
Adam Sandler

Talented, Adam, Sandler

It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar

Cool, Done, Guy

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