Quotes About Naming

I have a cat named Dandelion.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

I was definitely aptly named.

My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.

My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.

Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.

The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'

I named him Todd Chavez after a guy I went to middle school with, whose last name was Chavez and who I always liked. He had a good energy, and something about his spirit felt Todd-appropriate.

My family was disappointed when I named my child Samantha, but they named one of my cousins Rapunzel, and I just felt that was going too far.

My son was made on North Beach, and my daughter was named after Nazare.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.

Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a book called 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.'

A cappella group names are hard!

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.