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In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained. — Natasha Pulley

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"I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ... — Mike A. Lancaster

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad. — Terry Pratchett

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun. — Rick Mercer

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character." — Mindy Kaling

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace. — Letitia Baldrige

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. — Chris Brogan

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow. — Margot Asquith

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. — Neil Gaiman

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge. — Henry Beeching

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first. — LeBron James

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later. — Walter Darby Bannard

Other-Love is writing's first name. — Helene Cixous

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something. — Brian Francis

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor. — Darren Shahlavi

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it. — Dave Barry

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'll admit, it gives me a real buzz when I hear my name being chanted and that feeling is the same now as it was when I first broke into the team. — Steven Gerrard

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them. — Joe Biden

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. — Maggie Kuhn

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight ... — Thomas Hobbes

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility . — Nouman Ali Khan

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book. — Fran Lebowitz

My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible. — T. J. Miller

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired. — Khalil Gibran Muhammad

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.] — William Whewell

It seemed to him that Filipinos didn't attach too much importance to what their first names could do to their fate, only to their surnames. — Clarissa V. Militante

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton

I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo. — George W. Bush

My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty — Janet Jackson

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid ... — Phyllis Diller

Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis. — Drake

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard

national press. He called them by their first names, invited them — Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ... — Margaret Deland

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing? — Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing. — Steven Shainberg

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak — Michel Callon

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it. — Marlon Riggs

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names. — Sharon Bolton

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's. — Rodney Dangerfield

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. — Galileo Galilei

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. — Wayne Newton

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers! — Michelle Singletary

There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company. — Gracie Gold

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz Von Foerster

You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola. — Harry Caray

I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name. — Mitt Romney

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. — Neil Gaiman

First, our names shape us, and we shape our names in turn. — Patrick Rothfuss

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. — Robert Breault

Koko B. Ware ... his mom's first name was Tupper. — Bobby Heenan

I have many names. But you may call me Lilith, first of all demons. — Cassandra Clare

I sat with the broken;
I whispered their names,
I let them feel for the first time; serendipity, would change the vision they see for a day — Nikki Rowe

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. — Thomas Paine

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. — Fran Lebowitz

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are. — Mickey Rivers

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes. — Thom Yorke

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. — Aselin Debison

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view. — Cesar Millan

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. — Alex Ferguson

Okay, first of all, who names their dinner? I don't want to know my dinner's name. This potato- is this potato named Steve? — Rick Riordan

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first. — Max Lucado

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character. — Spike Lee

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you. — Nick Harkaway

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. — John Perry Barlow

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes ... man I dug. — Roy Eldridge

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. — George Burns