#name

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#friends #just #last #me #michael

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'. ↗

— River Phoenix

#change #change the world #course #everyone #first

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace. ↗

— Paloma Picasso

#been #i #name #peace #proud

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. ↗

— Plato

#diseases #give #names #strange #very

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#art #artist #briefly #call #called

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#different #different things #giving #mathematics #name

The name of Peru was not known to the natives. ↗

— William Prescott

#name #natives #peru

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?" ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#beautiful #beautiful people #i #like #lists

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. ↗

— Billy Preston

#earl #grant #had #him #home

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement. ↗

— Alan Price

#away #change #destroy #go #heritage