Name Quotes - page 7

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel. (Amy Bloom)
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period. View quote
Mike Pompeo
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. View quote
Carl Schurz
I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?" View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. View quote
Neil LaBute
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. View quote
Paul Reiser
Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money. (Ayad Allawi)
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. View quote
Bob Ney
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. View quote
Barbara Deming
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. View quote
David Antin
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. View quote
David Wilkerson
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. View quote
Debbie Harry
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. View quote
Gavin Bryars
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. (Isaac Hayes)
I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name. View quote
Izabella Scorupco
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. View quote
Lexa Doig
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. View quote
Max von Sydow
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it. View quote
Norma McCorvey