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A name can’t begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that’s the magic of names, isn’t it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in...

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking...

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a...

A label assigned to identify you either by this institution or your departed parents is neither of interest nor value to me. If you find you are in need of a name at any point,...

Names are masks, they get in the way.

Your name could mean to excel and you could be useless and crap at everything. You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn’t make it real. Doesn’t make it true.

Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me “Slow”. That’s because they hate me and made me sleep in the...

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

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

You’re saying that man “makes” his territory by naming the “things” in it?

My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.

Kissimmee has the best name, other than Hugsburg and Fornicatesville.

We’re OConchobhairs and they’re our friends. Dad always said that what our name means – friend of the wolves.

Just because you didn’t put a name to something did not mean it wasn’t there.

She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren’t quite working. “What’s your name?” “Stig.””Stick?” she asked, half ready to believe it. He shook his head and pointed his long index finger at the name stitched...

Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, like a dish of cream;And you might now and then supplySome caviare, or Strassburg Pie,Some potted grouse, or salmon...

Everybody should customize their names.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don’t need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If...

I want to open a 24-hour store called Closed. It’s open, and it’s Closed.

On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie. On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names – Eleanor, Lucy, Anna, Charlotte.Jackson wondered how you decided...

As regards the prohibition on the utterance of the fairy name by mortals, either that of the species as a whole, or of individuals, it his undoubtedly issued from sources exceedingly ancient. It is implicit...

If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich…not Dick. Hell I’d even settle for being called Chard.

I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would...

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton–go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday–I don’t know...

My friend Angela, she’s no angel. But my friend Demonica, she’s aptly named.

Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn’t belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does...

So I had all the names, three names, and that’s good to have on a soap.

Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and...

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

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

If this interpretation of nashamah by the rabbis is right … then it is naming that creates soul.

I am an i poet.

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

Flies travel like they’re named. Humans should be called Walks.

When you were born, just a fresh babe, and I held you in my arms for the first time, I knew that we had to call you Bridie, after the blessed St. Brigid. I knew...

I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:Don’t speak till you are spoken to.Myself, I do not hold with that —I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.But always keep in mind that heResents familiarity.I bow,...

We’ll call you… Ram. Wait – don’t we have a Ram in this class? I don’t want any confusion, it’ll be Balram. You know who Balram was, don’t you?””No, sir.””He was the sidekick of the...

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model’s names.

With a palindrome of a name, like Bob, I’d be both right thinking and dyslexic. Would you love me more as a Bob, or as a Bob?

Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

From the day whe arrived at her husband’s home, no one called her by her name.

My grandfather would have loved to have met you,” he told her huskily. “He would have called you ‘She Moves Trees Out of His Path.’ ” She looked lost, but his da laughed. He’d known...

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle...

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.