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Name Quotes


"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."


"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."


"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."


"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."


"My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her."


"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."


"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."


"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
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"Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch."


"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."


"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."


"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."


"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."


"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
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"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."


"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"
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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."
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"I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it."


"Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about."
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"I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop."


"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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