Name Quotes - page 2

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... (Georges Rouault)

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Donald Knuth

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

William Morris

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Marshall McLuhan

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

Elvis Costello

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Laurence Sterne

I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. (Gaston Bachelard)

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

Imelda Marcos

My name is more important than myself.

Pierre Cardin

Property is only another name for monopoly.

William Stanley Jevons

Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

William Cowper

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Bertrand Russell

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

Linus Torvalds

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well.

Frank Sinatra

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. (Marlene Dietrich)

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Learned Hand

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

John Stuart Mill

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

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