I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.
Always remember your kid's name.
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.
90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
My name is CHL. That's Charles Haas Layfield.
A good education is another name for happiness.
I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.
Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?
Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.