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Quotes About Name

Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly. "Where were you when the vowels were handed out? Behind the door?" said Nanny Ogg.
~ Terry Pratchett
Right at the bottom, at the tip of the root, is the fear of the dark and the cold, but once you've given darkness a name you have a measure of control. Or at least you think you have, which is nearly as important.
~ Terry Pratchett
My name is Carmilla," said the woman. "I've come from Mina, in Budapest. I think it's time you were rescued from this place. Don't you think?
~ Theodora Goss
Jennie went about her work, but the impression persisted; his name ran in her mind. Lester Kane. And he was from Cincinnati.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Why resurrect it all now. From the Past. History, the old wound. The past emotions all over again. To confess to relive the same folly. To name it now so as not to repeat history in oblivion. To extract each fragment by each fragment from the word from the image another word another image the reply that will not repeat history in oblivion.
~ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
My full name is Jonathan.
~ Lil Jon
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
~ Asne Seierstad
James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.
~ James Denton
There's such an aura around the Trudeau name and I understand that. But it's also so weird for me because I'm still a normal bride and, you know, it's a cliché to say, but Justin is just my Justin.
~ Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.
~ Rohit Shetty
My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.
~ Jenny Han
I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.
~ Kit Harington
Oh, shiiiiiiit!" "Is that really your name?" Pritkin demanded as we crawled up onto the shore some time later. "Oh, shit?" "It's more the story ofy life," I said miserably. And then I passed out.
~ Karen Chance
Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.
~ Karen Marie Moning
My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.
~ Kashmira Sheth
Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn't know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots.
~ Kate Mosse
A name is destiny, if you think it is.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When you figured out Sam's dead mother's name, you decided that it was fate, and from that day forward, Sam would be your brother. A name is destiny, if you think it is.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!
~ Gareth Roberts
I once said to a woman in a bar, "What's your name?" She said, "Don't even bother." I said, "Is that an Indian name, because I'd like to meet Hot to Trot. Is she here?"
~ Garry Shandling
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.
~ Garth Stein
Christian socialists were not even democrats, although they learned to say that socialism had to be democratic. They said socialism was a modern name for the unifying and cooperative divine order that already exists.
~ Gary J. Dorrien
this: You tell me then that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing remaining of my name, nothing remembered of my fame? But the gardens I planted still are young— the songs I sang will still be sung!
~ Gary Jennings
may I ask what the name of this Nazarene is?" "Oh yes," said Antipas, "I nearly forgot. It is Yeshua. Jesus in Greek." Yeshua meant "Yahweh saves.
~ Brian Godawa