Quotes about names
names one-line lines
We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there. Robert Cailliau
names pennies changed
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name. Richard Prince
names two church
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship... Richard Rohr
names creating special
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
names years age
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them. Richard Corliss
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.
names long gone
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one. Sarah McLachlan
names voice people
People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed. Sandra Bernhard
names tranquility fame
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
names free-gifts lasts
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. Samuel Johnson
names idols fame
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. Voltaire
names causes effects
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
names mad age
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
names british-navy ships
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
names insightful world
Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable. Walter White
names race sprung
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. Walter Scott
names tyrants nurse
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
names sometimes grain
Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. Virginia Woolf