Jon Stewart Quotes

Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My parents had nine months and they didn't call me Jew!

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

At present our only true names are nicknames.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uh…I don’t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite than calling her ‘hey, you, ancient chick.’ (Acheron)

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Names govern the world.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.