Quotes about name
names ideas people
A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion. Richard Bach
names people costumes
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people. Robert Fulghum
names together dull
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
names way treats
Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither. Rita Dove
names ideas world
You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them. Richard Madden
names enormous
Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning. Richard E. Grant
names clothes leader
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can. Renee Olstead
names suits objects
An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better. Rene Magritte
names function objects
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.
names suits stuck
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
names causes tyranny
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. Thomas Paine
names taxation firsts
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
names luck birth
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth Thomas Hood
names skins body
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity. Timothy Leary
names giving trying
Give death a better name or die trying.
names giving orchestration
Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society. Robert McKee
names promise desert
I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. Walt Whitman
names light flesh
In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own. Sarah Dessen
names together answers
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
names paris missing
There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it. Rosecrans Baldwin
names incapacity symptoms
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. Roland Barthes
names kitsch emotion
There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition. Roger Scruton
names creepy vampire
Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. Robin McKinley
names needs where-you-live
Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.
names predator irs
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. Robert T. Bakker
names wife three-things
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name. Robert Smith Surtees
names trying way
I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front. Robert Plant
names band bigs
I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
names our-world nintendo
If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine. Satoru Iwata
names people want
I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't. Sasha Grey
names indulge-yourself literature
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy. Sarah Waters
names political hopeful
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary. Sarah Vowell
names shields speak
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.