Names Quotes - Page 229

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for that day, but for me, and for all the other young women who were coming behind her. She didn't know our names, but she was working for us. I find that incredibly empowering.

I just think of Fannie Lou Hamer, because even though she didn't know my name Ms. Hamer was thinking of me. I just want to do a good job, because I want her to look over that edge of heaven and say, "That's why I did it. That's why. I knew we had the capacity and the talent to be everything America says we can't be. All we needed was an open door."

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.

I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

It's the way he says my name: like music.

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

Naïveté, thy name is me.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.