Name Quotes

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE’S FRAGRANCE.

His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.

I thought, “Wait a minute. That’s the perfect name.” That kind of freed up my year but that’s where the name came from.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

You have to all combine and fight a head-on battle – in the name of justice and equality – and even that’s going to be difficult. But if we let ourselves get separated so that we’re working for gays or school children or the aged, we’re in trouble.

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.

I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.