Quotes of: Naming Keyword

Roger Thornhill: Then, then your name isn't Kaplan? Man at Prairie Crossing: Can't say it is, 'cause it ain't.

North by Northwest

Roger Thornhill: I don't think I caught your name. The Professor: I don't think I pitched it.

North by Northwest

Grace Cardiff: He told me to make sure and tell you: the name is an anagram.

Rosemary's Baby

[first lines] Jack Torrance: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. My name is Jack Torrance.

The Shining

Brom Van Brunt: We haven't heard your name yet, friend. Ichabod Crane: I have not said it.

Sleepy Hollow

Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov: [after killing Frankie] You fucking idiots. He could not know my name.

Snatch.

Christopher Pike: Russian whizkid, what's your name? Chanko? Cherpov? Pavel Chekov: Ensign Chekov, Pavel Andreievich, sir.

Star Trek

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

David Blunkett

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom T. Hall

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

Gary Oldman

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Warren Buffett

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Fairly

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

Kailash Kher

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

Michael Clarke Duncan

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'

Cesar Romero

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Cokie Roberts

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

Larry Kramer