42 Names Quotes

The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

'Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.'

Its easier to forget a thing without a name. I've learned to guard my affections.' 'I know, you've never asked mine.'

Deep Throat: think about it. There is actually a semi-important figure in American history who is named for a blow-job movie. How do school teachers handle this?

'And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present the famous escape artists, Krafty Kralefsky and his partner, Slithery Stephanides.' 'Dear God,' said Larry, 'who thought of those names?'

My father's name, when he came to America, was Kassell. At Ellis Island, the registrars changed it to Cohen. I honored my father's name by changing it back to its original pronunciation.

'Party Line' by Abbreviated Sealing, and of course whenever I criticize the name of a band somebody will write in and say 'Of course what you don't realize is that it's a quote from Jean Jacques Pissoir's Vortex - A Threnody', and it may well be so.

This was the first time Remington rifles were used in the Argentine, and it tickles my fancy to think that the firm that shaves me every morning bears the same name as the one that killed my grandfather.

Yossarian - the very sight of the name made him shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.

Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it, and I didn't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.

And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,- A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

If a character had the first initial in both names, I could at least remember one of the names.

Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters (1959).

Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.

When Harold Pinter was lobbying to have London's Comedy Theatre renamed the Pinter Theatre, Stoppard wrote back: 'Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?'

She called me Hen Fap Thomas, said that I was something that she needed to have!

She is a half-mad old bag lady. The Finchley Whinger.

Paul Levesque (Triple H) (Stephanie's Husband)

Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'etait en aucune maniere ni saint, ni romain, ni empire.

Aries... I always feel like I'm saying that wrong.

'We call her Gimpy. That's not very nice but...what's she gonna do about it?' (from 'Sol's Turnstile')

Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwords to Euphuia...[1]

I hated it. Everybody'd say, 'Hey, mama, what's happening?' Then came the Mamas and Papas and I was stuck with it. And now people call me Mama Cass because of the baby. So I don't know whether I'm gonna be able to really get away from it.

His name changed from Jerry Dorsey to Englbert Humperdink! I mean, I'd just like to be in the room when they were working that one through: 'Zinglebert Bambledack! Yingeebert Dangleban! Zanglebert Dingleback! Winglebert Humptiback! Slut Bunwallah!' 'What?' 'All right, Kringlebert Fishtibuns! Steveibuns Buttrentrunden :' 'No, Jerry Dorsey! I like-' 'No, we can't : let's see, we have Zinglebert Bambledack, Dinglebert Wangledack, Slut Bunwallah, Klingibum Fistlbars, Dinglebert Zambeldack, uh : Jerry Dorsey, Englerbert Humptiback, Zinglebert Bambledack, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dinglebert Wingledank :' 'No, no, go back one!'

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...

C'est toi qui l'as nomme.

It would be a shame to ruin her last name [by getting married]. It's so perfect - Vanessa Paradis. So beautiful. It would be such a drag to stick her with Paradis-Depp. It's like a flat note. (2004)

His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.

Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)

'Your name is John Coffey.' 'Yes, sir, boss, like the drink only not spelled the same way.'

Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage

We were the Spice Boys.