Names Quotes

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? T...

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a ce...

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and colo...

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

I am an i poet.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved...

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dign...

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names...

Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares...

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It se...

Who can give a man this, his own name?

We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is '...

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night a...

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of t...

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton-...

Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telepho...

My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ...

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about t...

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be d...

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the In...

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the ot...

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there...

Cats don’t have names,” it said.“No?” said Coraline.“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names....

No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know w...

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it sa...

But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an ...

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a v...

Our names were made for us in another century.

A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The n...

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an...

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are s...

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at fi...

Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, l...

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:Don’t speak till you are spoken to.Myself, I do not hold with ...

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...

Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. D...

None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or...

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I be...

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newb...