Quotes About Naming

O amor faz destas coisas. Nomeia o inominável e confere voz ao silêncio

Good thing he changed it," Jerry mused. "Who could take a vampire named Will Walwoi seriously?" "Jerry … !" "Will Walwoi, Prince of Darkness! Curse of Will Walwoi! Will Walwoi Meets the Wolfman! Abbott and Costello Meet Will Walwoi!" Jerry began to laugh. "Can you imagine Bela Lugosi saying, 'Good eeevening. I am Will Walwoi!

The generation of babies born 9 months from now will be known as Children of the Quarn.

My mother named me Tomislav, and my father was a Bokši?. After my first week in the US, I'd become Tom Boksic. Which then led to Toxic.

more than 150 years later, these crude breastworks are still in place). At dusk the men picked the meatiest of their stringy mules and slaughtered them for a thin gravy dinner. From that day on, this forlorn spot would be known as Mule Hill.

Oviedo y Valdes, Bat? Hint Adalar?'nda hastal?ktan (büyük ihtimâlle frengi) çekmi? ilk hristiyan yerle?imcilerden bahseder ve ekler: "?talyanlar?n buna 'Frans?z Hastal???' ve Frans?zlar?n da 'Napoli Hastal???' dedi?ini duyup çok güldüm; asl?nda ikisi de 'Hint Adalar? Hastal???' deseymi? daha yerinde olurmu?.

feel a rush of something. Pride, I think. I'm not always good at naming my feelings – it's something I used to practice

There was a posh girl in my year at Cambridge, also a philosopher, who gave names to every significant possession in her life. She had a teddy bear, of course, but her car had a name too. So did her phone. So did both of her laptops and her camera. For all I know, she gave names to her knives and forks as well - I don't know how far these things go with the English aristocracy.

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.

What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

As Mama once told me, "We called him Boy for the first two months of his life, but when his third-month birthday came around and we saw that sweet smile—especially when you were close to him, reaching out for him—we realized that he had chosen life. So we named him Chaim after your zaide, your grandfather, but also because 'chaim' in Hebrew means 'life.'" I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without my twin.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

I call everything Steve. Since I was little, I'd go on, like, holiday and call hermit crabs Steve. And I still do. I'll name a snail Steve. Everything is called Steve in my world. My car is also called Steve.

The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.

There is nothing in a name. My husband, Santhosh Menon, called me Navya at first, which I did not like as it was my screen name. He knew me as Navya and found calling me Dhanya strange, so he came up with a pet name.

The names expose the namer more than they limn what's caught the eye.

As to Baker, that name should be forgotten," Winthrop wrote in The Canoe and the Saddle. "Mountains should not be insulted by being named after undistinguished bipeds.…

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue." —Thomas L. Friedman

Every man has a name given by the stars given by his neighbors. —ZELDA MISHKOVSKY, 1974

You want to kill a place, name it. A name only draws the people there who will kill it again. They slice it up or tear it down; they rape the women, burn everyone on pyres, and then, thinking they own it, they name it again. Stupid. Enough to know 'there is a hill and good water, a cross in the road and a strong oak tree.' But do not say it out loud. A home should always stay secret or someone will come to steal it.

Waeges, Menog, and Oestara." I named them from right to left. "Autumn, Winter, and Spring.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.