So be it. In my mind the beginning of a life, especially if it seems destined to be a challenging one, deserves the most promising name you can come up with. A beginning kind of...

None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or...

Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names that would have alluded to her ancestry. But they weren’t for her, these names that roll or sparkle...

The name meant “Angel of Victory,” which Jaffa supposed was appropriate enough. The Divine Hand himself had started the fashion for taking the names of angels when he’d called himself Vale-dan-Rahksa, the Angel of Vengeance....

Fries with what? I haven’t ordered yet.

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

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote — first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

If you don’t know a name, you can’t be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don’t smile much. Nominalists have more fun. They are known...

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly...

What’s your name?”Names!’ she sniffed, rolling her eyes. ‘People always want names, don’t they? They’re mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.’ she eyed Jack expectantly.’You want me to name you?’ he...

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

[speaking of a friend named Lavendar Lewis] ‘I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possibly be given her,’ said Anne. ‘If they had been so blind as to...

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

That’s what America’s all about, man, if it’s about anything. You can choose your own name.

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of...

I’m awful about your name. I still jump when I hear it. I still feel it rattling somewhere in my stomach. I think I’m jealous of anyone that gets to say it because it’s not...

WWPP (‘WODEA Witness Protection Programme’) ni Programu Maalumu ya Ushahidi ya Tume ya Dunia ya kuwakinga mashahidi wa kihalifu kwa kuwapa makazi mapya, majina mapya, kazi mpya, historia mpya ya maisha, na sura mpya, kuwakinga...

William Hurt has a painful last name. Kevin Love has a name perfect for February 14th. But what about Johnny Longdong? Where does he fit?

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a...

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Even now, it’s still hard for him to say it. I don’t blame him. It’s an icky word. Why couldn’t whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer ‘sugar’ and sugar, ‘cancer’? People might...

For they were alone, and he was one of the seven persons in the world who knew the Archmage’s name. The others were the Master Namer of Roke; and Ogion the Silent, the wizard of...

It’s nice to meet you, officially.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany’s final fate is at stake.

Initially, I’m one E short of being a JOKE. Midgets are also short.

They’ve named the well after you.””How did they know my name?””They don’t. They invented one.

Every name is real. That’s the nature of names.

No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘The Unnecessary War’.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love’s name?ORLANDO: Yes, just.JAQUES: I do not like her name.ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn’t true, would you hit him...

He quirked an eyebrow briefly, slightly, in such a way that no one afterwards might be able to safely accuse him of having done it. Sei knew the look. Names are meaningless, plosives and breath,...

Common folk didn’t have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor’s horn-book and Mr Piddington’s law of cyclones, Ellis’s anatomy and Lewer’s midwifery, we have already...

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

Does it, does it—I’m flailing here—does it have a name? What you’ve done?If it had a name, he says, what would that change, exactly? Would it be more acceptable to you? Would it be a...

Take the back door,” she said. “Claire, you and your strang friend-“”Eve,” they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. “Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of...

Names have power.

There are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don’t like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don’t like them, I don’t take them.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I’d be a botanist.

Well,” Mr. Cheeseman interjected. “Perhaps there’s an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego.””What’s an alter ego?” asked Gerard.”It’s a superhero’s true but secret identity,” said Chip. “You know, the way...

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

You can’t know people, only their names.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!