Name Quotes - page 6

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. (Mark Twain)
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. View quote
Walter Scott
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. View quote
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? View quote
Arthur Miller
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. View quote
Henri Poincaré
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. View quote
Franz Kafka
The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! View quote
Albert Einstein
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. (Bob Hope)
It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. View quote
Phillips Brooks
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. View quote
Manuel Puig
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. View quote
Mark Haddon
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. View quote
Novak Djokovic
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? View quote
Robert Sternberg
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. View quote
Helen Fisher
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. (Junot Diaz)
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name. View quote
Debby Ryan
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. View quote
James Surowiecki
The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name. View quote
Jerry Rubin