55 quotes found
“People don't always need a name.”
“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”
“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”
“Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.”
“True or not, it's important to have stories they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.”
“He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?”
“My name, I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but as you did just now. As if I am the only man in the world who can satisfy you.~Liam C.”
“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.”
“I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.”
“A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.”
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
“I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it ve...”
“What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.”
“I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.”
“I earned my famous name.”
“I literally was famous before I knew my own name.”
“When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big...”
“Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.”
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
“A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.”
