There’s a lot you can do with a name like Amelia.You can play with it, sure, is what you think I’m going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French,...

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.

Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s....

[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she’d sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act...

New streets should be Twitter friendly and be named with hashtags up front. I’d build a house on ‪#‎LoversLane‬.

I’ve outgrown my childhood name, and I haven’t found a new one yet.””Ah,” she cried. “Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my...

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano’s mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the...

names are a way to keep people in your mind

If he be Mr. Hyde” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn’t just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.First...

Simon’s band never actually produced any music. Mostly they sat around in Simon’s living room, fighting about potential names and band logos. She sometimes wondered if any of them could actually play an instrument. ‘What’s...

And this is Nymphadora-“”Don’t call me Nymphadora, Remus,” said the young witch with a shudder. “It’s Tonks.””-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only,” finished Lupin.”So would you if your fool of...

I want to name my son Justin Case. You know, just in case.

Don’t tell me your name. If you don’t tell me your name, I can’t hurt your feelings by forgetting it.

You want to know a secret?””Always.””My real name is Dave.””I see.””This doesn’t seem to amuse you.””I met Jeremy the troll a few nights ago.””Seriously?””Seriously. Also known as the Mighty Raaaarrggh! Although…I can sorta see why...

No one in the history of your short lives has used the same voice as you with which to say your name. This is yours. Your special gift that no one can ever take from...

Mercy is not a proper Indian name.”………..”Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

Do you really want to know where we come from?” she said. “In every century, in every country, they’ll call us something different. They’ll say we’re ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giving us a...

She is a famous artists’ model who claims to have been christened Topaz – even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past… Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But...

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if...

İsimler, birbirinden farklı yaratıkları ayırt etmek içindir; bizleri değil.

Lying in his parents’ house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his resume in the bin. She confessed that Dimitri had gone...

It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson’s snipe, Forster’s tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back...

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter.Your name, which I played...

Jackson,” he mused. “Not a name either one of you was born to.”Lizzie answered, “No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You...

We commonly speak as though a single ‘thing’ could ‘have’ some characteristic. A stone, we say, is ‘hard,’ ‘small,’ ‘heavy,’ ‘yellow,’ ‘dense,’ etc. That is how our language is made: ‘The stone is hard.’ And...

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as “quothe.” Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem...

Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.

Besides, what’s in a name? Actually, a lot. Whether taken from a parent or grandparent, some saint, or even the late great Elvis, your name insists another person’s dream of what you should have been....

Mỗi con người khi sinh ra đều là một trang giấy trắng. Cái tên chính là những con chữ màu đen lấp đầy trang giấy đó, nó theo suốt chiều dài của một con người....

If I had my clone take a test for me, it’s likely I’d misspell my own name. And I’m terrible at remembering people’s names—even if that person is me.

They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn’t the other way around—the thing gets more and more like its name.

Is everyone with one face called a Milo?””Oh no,” Milo replied; “some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.””How terribly confusing,” he cried. “Everything here is called exactly...

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

It’s poor judgment’, said Grandpa ‘to call anything by a name. We don’t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can’t heave them into categories...

Why didn’t his parents just tattoo ‘Nobody in my family has ever finished secondary school’ on his forehead at birth?

The menu is not the meal.

I told the Nicks I had to nix their idea. I mean it’s silly. Why would I name all my clones Nick Name? If I did that, what would their nicknames be?

Her name is Shelen, and I think she probably has a brother named Helen. He is Helen, a male with a female’s name, but life could be worse. He could be a liar, a thief,...

That’s a lovely idea, Diana,’ said Anne enthusiastically. ‘Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn’t beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people’s thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that...

A named thing is a tamed thing.

Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person’s will is more powerful than both put together.