Names Quotes - Page 103

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

And then... as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer.

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.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

I don’t know any redneck that’s not into fun. That’s their middle name: Red-Fun-Neck.

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

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

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.