Quotes About Naming

This human was female. She was called Priti, which was pronounced "pretty" and means pretty. Unfortunate, given that she was human and, by her very nature, vomit-provoking.

By doing this, apparently they have earned the right to change its name to "beef," which is the monosyllable furthest away from "cow," because the last thing a human wants to think about when eating cow is an actual cow.

Things that we cannot name tend to build in mystery and become dangerous. Simply naming, defining, and learning to recognize resistance in the moments of our days causes it to lose most of its power over us. It is no longer a mystery because we have named it.

To name the cat is, if you like, to make it into a non-cat, a cat that has ceased to exist, has ceased to be a living cat, but this does not mean one is making it into a dog, or even a non-dog.

All these assistants are given female names and default identities by tech executives and developers—no accident. "I think that probably reflects what some men think about women—that they're not fully human beings,

Atribuir un nombre es un acto de poder. La primera y más definitiva ocupación de un territorio ajeno.

Ocupada en darles nombre, se le ha escapado su historia.

Fue él quien, cuando yo estaba aún en estado artesanal, me concedió este nombre, mi nombre definitivo: Mariamar. —No solo te doy un nombre —dijo—. Te doy un barco entre mar y amar.

plus on est capable de nommer ce que l'on vit, plus on est à même de le vivre et apte à le changer.

Across that time span "Hoover Dam" and "Boulder Dam" were used interchangeably, the preference often depending on the political leanings of the speaker. The matter generated so much confusion and acrimony that in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1947 a letter writer named Frank Romano Sr. was provoked to propose that the structure in Black Canyon be named "Hoogivza Dam.

Craters on Mercury have to be named for deceased poets; moon of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters. For this type of object in the Kuiper belt, the rules said that the name had to be a creation deity in a mythology

When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.

Yorda...that's your name?

Toute âme est libre à nommer son vainqueur.

We didn't call it World War I. How could we imagine there'd be a second?

Sara had named her daughter Zoe Elena. Damn if Elena hadn't sniffled like a baby herself when she found out.

Sara, k?z?na Zoe Elena ad?n? vermiÅŸti. Elena bunu ilk öÄŸrendiÄŸinde bebek gibi h?çk?rm??t?. sy15

we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.

Did you know some of the stars have names? He looked at me and smiled with that warm look he gets now and then. Yes, he said, but I don't know their names, do you? No, I said, but lets name them ourselves. We'll name them after everyone we love that is already in heaven, and every night when we see their star, we'll have a good memory of them instead of a sad one. See how beautiful it is up there?

Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.

Following the precedent set by the Europeans, who referred to the coastal regions of Africa by their exports—the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast—some writers have referred to the Chesapeake region as the Tobacco Coast. But it would also be appropriate to call it the American Slave Coast.

It is rather that I believe in the reality of what's being named more than in the name itself.

When a time came to carve her name, would it be Dawnged, girl of Ystrad, T´ywi or Tâl, payment to Elen, or would she one day find her true name?