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...

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?

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.

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.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you “chicken man”?

“So what’s your team called?” asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, “We’re called the Winmates because we’re inmates who win.” Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression...

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,...

…nameless hideous monsters are freaking terrifying. You always fear what you don’t know, what you don’t understand, and the first step to having understanding of something is to know what to call it. It’s a...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure...

What’s in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who’ve owned it before you.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

My little scam in April ’85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here’s some names of some people we’ve recruited.

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword ‘Blazing Blade’ and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn’t you rather have...

Eddie Money and Johnny Cash should have collaborated. I’d have paid good last name to see them in concert.

There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to...

Medusa has been called many worse things around here, including ‘diseasedpincushion,’ and ‘perambulating cactus.’

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.

A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but...

What’s in a name?

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Conventional names define a person’s past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

She has a name, it’s true. But all women have names. So to elevate her above all the rest, I simply call her Her. And for as long as I live, I will always love...

How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?

Oh, it makes SUCH a difference. It LOOKS so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can’t you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and...

This isn’t the first time the world has come to an end, and it won’t be the last either.

I woke with my name singing in my ears. It was a beautiful sound, music unlike any in the world. It made me wish that everything could have such a name. Not just people, but...

You’re doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves in the third person, like little children. They see themselves from outside their own organisms, outside their own sensory...

Good grief! They’re going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn’t even met Madge yet!””Who’s Madge?” Sticky asked.”Her Majesty the Queen!

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given...

Her last name was Purchase, and I was sold. I tried to buy, but as there was only one of her, she was OUT OF STOCK. Better luck tomorrow.

That looks like a tree, let’s call it a tree,’ said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.

Yeah, parents. What can you do?” Alexis said, giggling, again.

A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.

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...

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were strange...

He has a name.””Oh yeah. Skulduggery isn’t it?” Fletcher responded. “That’s an unusual one. Tell me were you born a skeleton or were your folks just disturbingly hopeful?

My son’s name will be Sonya, like his mother, whose name will be Dadya.