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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...