My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
Mickey Spillane

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
Aldrich Ames

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
James Brown

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
John Mellencamp

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
Franz von Papen

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Thomas Love Peacock

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
Robert Morley

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
Mary Austin

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith

People's fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Ann Coulter

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Jonathan Dimbleby

Proper names are rigid designators.
Saul Kripke