Best Surnames Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc

“A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?”

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Author:Kelley Armstrong

“I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.”

Change Agents Surnames

Author:Rachel Weisz

“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”

Writing Heart Littles Earth Christian Passion Names Given Walks Creation Mood Great Writers Surnames

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?”

Thinking Enough Sound Imagination Poor Needed Contrary Faculty Imaginative My Imagination Vivid Extraterrestrial Smirk Surnames

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Persons Form Names Levels Views Numbers Fields Type Models Workers Scripts Point Of View Command Warrior Primaries If I Could Hypothesis Ants Activate Surnames

Author:Victor Pelevin

“Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!”

Knows Want Giving Firsts Said Matter Father Names Talking Shut Up Rhyme Hints Pads Arches Chatter Fins Blisters Surnames

Author:Frank Beddor

“And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.”

Ifs Said Young Mother Known Fool Finished Call Me Witch Surnames Tonks

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else. What is it? It's more like, um... Rose Tyler: Bad breath. Harriet Jones: That's it! The Doctor: Calcium decay. Now that Narrows it down!.. Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else - what else? Hyphenated surnames. Yes! That narrows it down to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius! Mickey Smith: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, great! We can write 'em a letter.”

Ifs Writing Made Planets Creatures Letters Doctors Breaths Yeah Rose Smell Ems Decay Pardon Like Something Fart Mickey Calcium Bad Breath Surnames

Author:Russell T Davies

“Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.”

Trying I Can Forget Personality Recalls Forget Me Parentheses Surnames

Author:Muriel Spark

“After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.”

Feels Said Sometimes Body Seems Brain Conversation Your Body Controlled Bureaucracy Mario Nintendo Telegrams Surnames

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her tea. “Just Daphne Bridgerton, I suppose. It’s difficult to shed the surname in this clan. In spirit, that is.” “I hope that is a compliment,” Lady Bridgerton remarked. Daphne just smiled at her mother. “I shall never escape you, I’m afraid.” She turned to Gareth. “There is nothing like one’s family to make one feel like one has never grown up.”

Feels Spirit Mother Difficult Rooms Sitting Tea Compliment Shed Clans Hmmm Duchess Surnames

Book:It's in his kiss

Source: It's in his kiss

“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”

Love Reason Inspiration Form Desire Pleasure Influence Inspire Judgment Moved Violent Acquire Rejected Kindred Surnames

Author:Socrates

“Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.”

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Author:Russell Brand

“There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.”

Ancient Surnames

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.”

Book Packs Finite Publish Tunnels Affiliation Chronology Surnames

Book:The Way the World Works

Source: The Way the World Works

“There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.”

Ifs Needs May Lasts Names Common Talent Perception Meetings Surnames

Author:Lily Collins

“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”

Persons Ireland Grandparent Static Surnames

Author:Anne Enright

“It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.”

People Hard Jobs Faces Steps Pretty Face Surnames

Author:Julian McMahon