A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
Lane Evans

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Maynard James Keenan

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
Penelope Lively

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot

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.
Thomas Mann

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
Cornelia Funke

And so with all things: names were vital and important.
Algernon H. Blackwood

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
John Hales

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke of Wellington

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.
Richard Attenborough

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
Carl Rakosi

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
Piper Laurie

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
Marcel Dionne

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
George Saintsbury

Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro