Famous quotes containing the word names:
“A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, Ive been called by a million names all my life. I dont want a name. Im better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.”
—Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1940)
“Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.”
—Alexander Herzen (18121870)
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)