My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.

People always think I’m Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you’ll see the worldIf I’m not mistaken…Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure…Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a...

We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I must admit that when I chose the name, ‘vitamine,’ I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose...

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn’t want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an...

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that...

I don’t recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

The twilight seems invidious.It simply can’t let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

I don’t know how the ‘Richie’ started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that’s a joke.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less...

I’d love to work with an Asian guy named Wu Hu, because just saying his name would get me all pumped up and excited.

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

There are always people who will – who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I’m from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon,...

It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

He’s a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

It doesn’t matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job – a J-O-B. It really matters to people that they have an opportunity...

What in heaven’s name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I’ll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows – she certainly doesn’t – who called me...

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name – her exact...

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

my face for peace – no more war in my name

Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It’s pain, It’s pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

She took another step. The simple motion of her moving leg was like a dance, the unexaggerated shifting of her hip entrancing as a fire. The arch of her bare foot said more of sex...

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I don’t tell many people my last name.

The name iRobot comes from ‘Internet-connected robot.’

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he’s created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like ‘Novacane.’

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and...

I’d like to wade through all the people named Wade in this city, and personally call all of them to congratulate them on their fabulous name.

There’s always been some moron-who usually went by the name of ‘producer’ – who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a...

Your name could mean to excel and you could be useless and crap at everything. You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn’t make it real. Doesn’t make it true.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it’s not the size of the role, it’s the material and the people you are working with.

As soon as you see ‘Dame’ in front of someone’s name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to...

My number-one goal is to never feel like I’m strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I’m doing that as anything – as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter – I feel like the minute...

I’m urging NASA to foster the development of what I call ‘runway landers.’ No, that’s not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It’s a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like...

Rock’n’roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it’s ever gonna accomplish anything.

His name was Theo.