I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.