My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
MomStartNameYouNamesLittle
When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
Jesse Ventura
LiveYouNamesMexicoYourHouses
Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
Nick Harkaway
CharacterYourselfChildYouNames
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
Medgar Evers
DayVotingFirstAlwaysNamesTell
I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
James Caan
PeopleCareerNamesAlongGetMost
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
HomeImpossibleLostNamesBeliefs
I respect all the fighters who have the big names.
Gennady Golovkin
RespectNamesBigWhoFighters
In the summer of 2004, Malem Jan was sitting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the second son of Jalaluddin, in their Pakistani base in the North Waziristan town of Miram Shah when they heard their names on the BBC. The Americans were offering $250,000 and $200,000, respectively, as rewards for information leading to their capture.
Anand Gopal
SonInformationSummerSittingNames
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
LifeCulturePurposeNamesTribe
I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.
Steven Cojocaru
NameYouBackKnowNamesHold
People's fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti
PeopleNamesSimplifiedFates
What's really fun is to write under different names.
Tom Verlaine
FunWriteNamesDifferentReally
The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole
FamilyNameVoteNeverNamesStage
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
Mary Hunter Austin
GreatWordsFameNamesAboveClear
Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
Pastor Maldonado
StrongDrivingNamesBigHonourF1
In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.
Michael Paterniti
ShoesBattleOverNamesAccents
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
Maluma
MomSisterNameLettersFirstNames
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
Little Richard
MeNobodyKindNeverNamesAudience
It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
J Balvin
DreamAlwaysNamesBigColombia
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Jonathan Dimbleby
WordsSayingLongNamesBeenHe
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner
ChangeMusicStyleThinkNamesGone
In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.
Donovan Bailey
SportsPeopleDriveEventsNames
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
Edmund White
GoodI AmBetterFeelKnowingNames
I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.
Cheryl Cole
LoveBabyThoughtBoyNamesLittle
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