Quotes About Naming

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it's subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the branding process.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

My middle name is Cliff, so Ive been nicknamed Cliffy in the past.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Consistent with Martin Klaproth's inspiration in 1789 to link his discovery of a new element with the recent discovery of the planet Uranus and with McMillan's suggestion to extend the scheme to Neptune, Seaborg would name element 94 for Pluto, the ninth planet outward from the sun, discovered in 1930 and named for the Greek god of the underworld, a god of the earth's fertility but also the god of the dead: plutonium. *

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Sweep away the clouds And let a dome of blue sky Give this sea a name!

Jason scratched his head. You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

This is Buford," Leo announced. "You name your furniture?" Frank asked.

So you've got no name? I asked. They couldn't think of one ugly enough? The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. Set animal is too hard to say, I decided. I'll call you Leroy. Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged.

But who are you? Percy— I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. Gotta go! What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

What kind of animal am I eating?' Sam wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. 'It's named Saehrimnir.' 'Okay, first of all, who names their dinner? I don't want to know my dinner's name. This potato--is this potato named Steve?' She rolled her eyes. 'No, stupid. That's Phil. The bread is Steve.

If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.

I still don't get it Coach Hedge muttered as they roamed the centre aisle. They named a whole town after Leo's table? I think the town was here first, Coach Nico said.

You're sure?' I asked. 'I mean, the Lord of the Sword is great. But you could also be, I don't know, the Slammer of the Hammer'.

He raised an eyebrow. You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called-- I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. Ja-hooty? Thoth looked offended. In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--