#named

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#best #best friend #brooke #brooklyn #dad

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. ↗

— Robert Blair

#dread #firmness #grave #her #men

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#been #dozen times #hadn #half-dozen #i

I think my parents were high when they named me. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#i #i think #me #named #parents

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#change #external #functions #given #impulse

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#badly #being #credit #driven #enough

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787. ↗

— William Bligh

#august #bounty #command #her #i

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#had #host #i #james #know

Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#being #burdens #cases #face #frankly

People named their kids after me! ↗

— Chad Everett

#kids #me #named #people #their