The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

When I was living in New York and didn’t have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I’d think, that’ll be...

My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a...

I’m a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one’s lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The...

‘Iggy’ was my dog – he was named after Iggy Pop – and ‘Azalea’ is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.’ Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne,...

These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It’s not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it’s the indie bands that...

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite… what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all...

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign...

The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left… is to be perfect.

When I hear your name, I involuntarily clench my butt cheeks. Is that love? I don’t know—I’m not Nicholas Sparks.

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says ‘Name Actors Only’ in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives...

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

I guess in the independent market, I’d be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don’t think my name is that well-known, I don’t have much of...

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is ‘My god is greater than your god,’ and we’re fighting in the name of our god,...

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

Fame is not the reason why brands are created and erected. Be diligent, focused and chain unceasing prayers to God who will continue giving you cheers.

Whatever you do gives you the name it gives.

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...