Quotes About Naming

It was these strata that Sedgwick named after a Latinized English term for the country of Wales—"Cambria," a designation that eventually replaced "Silurian" as the name for the earliest strata of animal fossils.

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Don't differentiate routine names solely by number. One developer wrote all his code in one big function. Then he took every 15 lines and created functions named Part1, Part2, and so on. After that, he created one high-level function that called each part.

The species name is kind of like your own first name (except it comes last in a plant's botanical name). The genus name is similar to your family name (except in botanical names, it comes first).

I shall call him Tufty.

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

There are a limited number of letters in the alphabet. AFL? Nope, taken. BFL? Eh, doesn't sound very good. CFL? Taken. DFL? What's the D stand for?... They went all the way down the list, slept on it for a couple of days, came back - and, long story short, they said the XFL still has some brand equity.

I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.

Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Jason Sudeikis said an SNL go-to for naming people was: regular first name, noun last name. My noun was Beard.

Por ejemplo, la superpartícula del electrón se llama «selectrón»; la del quark, «squark»; y la del leptón (como el electrón o el neutrino) se denomina «sleptón».

Sister May was delighted at their announcement that the young one is to be named after her. However, she insists on the little female being called May and not Sissimay.

It's hard to imagine an American sports team named the Diarrheas ("Gimme a 'D' …").

Reynolds Lucius Wadsworth III was Waddy's real name, the result of a three-generation tradition of unparalleled cruelty in the naming of first-born boys.

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

This is Morbidia, said Vlad. Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.

Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. Oograah means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it.

My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.