->''"What does it matter what your name is? Take on whatever you wish, make it your own. But know this: a thousandfold names can not [[ArcWords change the nature of a man.]]"''
-->-- '''Dak'kon''', ''{{Planescape Torment}}''

->''"Didn't anybody hear that? ''Phil Mygrave''? Isn't anyone going to make a joke about that name?"''
-->-- '''[[CoolCar CAR]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''

->''"Hard. Head. It's not just a name, you know."''
-->-- '''[[HardHead Hardhead]]''', ''{{Transformers}}: Revelation''

->Margaret is greek you geek\\
It means pearl\\
I'm a pure girl...
-->-- '''[[EarWorm Philistine]]''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' 2 OST

->''"Believe it or not, one of the most difficult tasks you face as Dungeon Master is dreaming up cool names for all those places, [[OddJobGods gods]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent monsters]], and {{NPC}}s you create. As superficial as this chore might seem, nothing kills interest in an ''[[DungeonsAndDragons AD&D]]''[[TradeSnark ®]] game faster than goofy names. The minute your players are attacked by Gargathrank the Unclean, a great deal of the credibility you've carefully fostered flies straight out the window. Don't forget that the players' first impressions of your game world are based, in part, on the names you choose."''
-->-- '''Ray Winninger''', "Dungeoncraft", ''{{Dragon}} Magazine'' (May 1999)

->''"[=DuBois.=] -- It's a French name. It means woods and Blanche means white, so the two together mean white woods. Like an orchard in spring! You can remember it by that."''
-->-- '''[=Blanche DuBois=]''', ''AStreetcarNamedDesire''

->"My name is Alice, but--"\\
"It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently; "What does it mean?"\\
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.\\
"Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh...
-->-- '''LewisCarroll''', ''Through the Looking-Glass'' [[note]]Interestingly enough, it is largely because of this work that the name Alice [[AliceAllusion does mean something]].[[/note]]

->''"Eino Leino! It was an Finnish Homopoet who was extremely negative: "Ei" means No in Finnish, and "No" means No in English. So his name was '''No No Lei No!''' And what Lei means, no one knows."''
-->-- '''Robert Gustavsson''', as the Homofobic Herman Ers majestät, in one of his sketches.

->''"Geddit? ''Know'' ''me'' - I'm alone! Genius!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''[[{{Showgirls}} Nomi Malone]]'' and dripping with sarcasm.

->''[[AltumVidetur Nomen est omen]]''
-->-- '''[[BilingualBonus Latin proverb]]'''

->''"When a reader reads that Armand de Bois-Tracy met Nob, he or she will have no problem with distinguishing which one is a viscount and which one is a miller."''
-->-- '''[[TheWitcher Andrzej Sapkowski]]''', quoted [[http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Proper_Names_in_Translation here]].

->''"His name is ''Brute''? Yeegh, [[GenreSavvy that doesn't sound too promising.]]"''
-->-- '''Jack''', ''ComicBook/RapunzelsRevenge''

->'''Terry:''' What's the creepy lady's power?\\
'''Tamara:''' I don't know, but they call her 'Bombshell'.\\
'''Terry:''' [[GenreSavvy Oh,]] ''[[DeadpanSnarker that's]]'' [[LampshadeHanging encouraging]].
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''

->'''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle:]]''' Hey Fluttershy! Meet Mr. Wright, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he's Rainbow Dash's lawyer]].\\
'''[[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright:]]''' Hello there, nice to meet you.\\
'''Fluttershy:''' ...\\
'''Phoenix Wright:''' So... Ponyville's a really nice place huh?\\
'''Fluttershy:''' ...\\
'''Phoenix Wright:''' ([[ShrinkingViolet Talk about quiet...]] [[LampshadeHanging certainly lives up to her name]].)
-->-- ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm''

->'''Clumsy:''' Just because your ''name'' is Grouchy doesn't mean you always have to ''be'' grouchy!
->'''Grouchy:''' Uh, yeah. It does.
-->--''Film/TheSmurfs''

->''"In the midst of all this, there was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_madoff Bernie Madoff]]. An embezzler named "made off". Hmm... Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?"''
-->-- '''Creator/RobinWilliams''', on Bernie Madoff and the 2008 financial crisis, ''Weapons of Self Destruction''.

->''"Ooh, a potential father to a new wave of humanity is named Adam - [[SarcasmMode bet that was an all-night brainstormer!]]"''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' in his review of ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''
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