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New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

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

My favorite tree is the Joshua tree, which is named after me. Well, it will be, once I change my name to Joshua.

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They’d yell out the names, and we just kept ’em.

God forgive me. Her Name — I never knew her Name.”Which meant not a Jot to me — and yet my Heart was the Thing that broke.

Names are not always what they seem.

Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

If you name things, then you treat them better.

Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. ‘200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore’ is...

Who can give a man this, his own name?

It’s not a real name,” she says. “Not one that he’s carried with him always. It’s one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

She ought to call him Benjamin, but it was too intimate, too soft. “My lord?” she ventured, only half serious.”Good, God, no.”She bit back a smile. “Husband?” she took a sip of wine.He grunted. “Are...

Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?” Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. “He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus.” Josiah Worthington said, “He looks more...

He pulls the gun away from his head and sets it on the coffee table. He wonders who first called it a coffee table. He gets to his feet and walks into the hallway. He...

Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous …

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you’re beautiful exactly...

I suppose it’s the name: there’s a deal in the name of a tune.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.

Glad you’re back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger.””Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you.””Sparky?

She calls me Honeylips.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it’s commonplace for users to create ‘throwaway’ accounts to reveal sensitive information.

I like the name Lola, because it has LOL in the beginning.

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you’re making airline reservations.

mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s...

What’s really fun is to write under different names.

Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me.

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.