3,604 Quotes About Names

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.