Ignore quoted text in reg exp

From: nick (nickgieschen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: 29 Nov 2003 00:24:56 -0800

I can't seem to figure out how to ignore quoted text in a regular
expression. For example, I would like a reg exp to match 1-3, but not
4:

my name is nick
my "string"name"string" is nick
my "text" name "text" is nick
my "name" is nick

Is this even possible?

Thanks for any help.

Nick