Names Quotes - Page 108

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.