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Name Quotes (page 99)

Steve Martin quote: "First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a..."
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. Steve Martin
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names. Haruki Murakami
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say, of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers. E. M. Forster
Margaret Atwood quote: "What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in..."
What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food! Margaret Atwood
Harpo Marx quote: "My name is whaddya care My home is anywhere. People say I'm..."
My name is whaddya care My home is anywhere. People say I'm awful dumb. So I thought to you I'd come Harpo Marx
Robert Bolt quote: "I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists."
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists. Robert Bolt
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! Ambrose Bierce
Neil Gaiman quote: "Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just..."
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. Neil Gaiman
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. L. M. Montgomery
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. Rainer Maria Rilke
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary. Sarah Vowell
-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not? Tad Williams
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. Victor Hugo
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down. Margaret Atwood
Ellen DeGeneres quote: "Haiku sounds like I'm. Saying hi to someone named. Ku. Hi, Ku...."
Haiku sounds like I'm. Saying hi to someone named. Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello. Ellen DeGeneres

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