Quotes About Naming

It ain't nothin' till I call it.

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.

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.

Naming is power, you know. That's what they say at least. My parents exhausted universal power in first creating me and then in naming me. They created for me an identity whether I wanted one or not.

In Sweden, it is illegal to name your baby Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea or Elvis.

Q: What did the Chinese couple name their special-needs baby? A: Sum Ting Wong.

Everyone in our tribe had two names, the real one which was secret and was seldom used, and one which was common, for if people use your secret name it becomes worn out and loses its magic.

And it's only through the power, grace, and glory of your name that I'm learning to be so very careful what I call, label, and name others.

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.

The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names "the gods", can be heard.

choosing between her husband's name and her father's name didn't give a woman much of a choice.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names. There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men. So let us choose our names. I have read of a man who lived many thousands of years ago, and of all the names in these books, his is the one I wish to bear. He took the light of the gods and brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods. And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer. His name is Prometheus.

We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

It might hear us. But what's its name? We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

U?ywanie nazw, jak Wieloryp, RozwaleÅ", Trupiec, ZdechÅ'oÅ", Ã…Å¡cierwiszon, Padliniak, okreÅ›lanie k. jako ZwÅ'okochodów, KÅ'usogrobów, Kryptodreptów itp. jest Å›cigane i karane poni?ajÄ…cym przesiedleniem (zsyÅ'kÄ… w tyÅ', tzw. ozadnictwem).

Is 'Vane' Vane's real name? Minnie chuckled evilly. Spencer Archibald- and if you dare call him that to his face, you'll be braver than any other in the 'ton.' Only his mother can still do so with impunity. He's been known as Vane since before he went to Eton. Devil named him- said he always knew which way the wind was blowing and what was in the breeze.