There’s something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I’m not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it’s not something I deeply care about. – John McEnroe
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known. – Jackie Robinson
I’m determined not to lose my name. It’s who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It’s just who I am. – Ioan Gruffudd
I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: ‘How can they now say I don’t exist?’ – Jose Antonio Vargas
Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is. – Jon Stewart
I knew the name; I knew who Leatherface was. But I hadn’t seen any of the films, mostly because I’m a scaredy-cat. – Alexandra Daddario
I’ve never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment. – Bobby Keys
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like? – Brad Pitt
My number-one goal is to never feel like I’m strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I’m doing that as anything – as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter – I feel like the minute I name it, I’m stuck in a box. – Amanda Palmer
Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name. – Bruno Mars
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn’t sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste. – Buddy Rich
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less! – Ajay Devgan
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. – Clifford Geertz
Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. – Jules Verne
Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he’s been accepted everywhere he goes. – John Hench
It’s been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I’ve always wanted to be in a band – right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal. – Jakob Dylan
Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I’m not existing. – Bai Ling
Being a new band, I just can’t think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world. – Adam Rich
By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn’t go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school. – Christopher Walken
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi’s artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn’t paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself. – Andy Behrman
There is one person who can help solve ‘writer’s block’. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker. – Ashwin Sanghi
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin’ all the time, always playin’ the clown. – Bruce Springsteen
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. – J. William Fulbright