Quotes About Names
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~ John F. Kennedy
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I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!
~ John Flanagan
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In de muur tegenover die waar alle andere namen gegraveerd stonden, zag ze één enkele naam, en die was duidelijk niet Skandisch. Het was ook geen mannennaam. Lydia keek er uitgebreid naar. 'Evanlyn.
~ John Flanagan
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Punks are nihilists who see no tomorrow at all, and dwell in a culture of death music and death imagery. Appropriately, Return focuses on a group of punks who bear names like Trash, Suicide, and Scum, their very names indicating their lack of respect for the world, and themselves. They see themselves as nothing in a world that doesn't value them, and won't survive an apocalypse.
~ John Kenneth Muir
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The ICF and Under Fives mean more around Upton Park than Ron and Reggie Kray. History stays around for years. But who cares about names.
~ John King
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It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
~ John Leonard
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Viking names included 'desirous of beer', 'squat-wiggle', 'lust-hostage', 'short penis', 'able to fill a bay with fish by magic', 'the man who mixes his drinks' and 'the man without trousers'.
~ John Lloyd
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PETER: But you're 'Alice'. ALICE: As you're 'Peter'... But after all, what's in a name? PETER: What isn't? She understands.
~ John Logan
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They don't have any real power, though," Sanchez said. "They're not tyrants." "Are you trying to tell me that somebody who names you 'Princess Deedee the First' isn't a tyrant?
~ John M. Ford
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It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.
~ John Marsden
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Patty's mouth comes open and her lips shape names as if it would hurt her to say it out loud.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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Seeker moved in a place of Names and glamours, of knotted hairs and deadly magics.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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Funny story, but the coincidence of our last names ending in the same letter is what led two such disparate types as Connla and myself to meet and team up in the first place. It's a long story involving being sorted onto the same team for a pub quiz.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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In the Middle Ages it was a given that all animals and birds had a name relating to their kind. All cats, for example, were either Gylbert or Tybald (hence Tibbles); all sparrows were Philip. All redbreasts were Robin, and wrens were Jenny. And all monkeys were Robert. Still
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
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this girl before and they told each other their names. The richness of the autumn came into the air, the throb of the engine, the abundance of the farm, the hickory nuts which she offered to the girl and which her thin hands took. She was Dorine Wheatley. 'We moved into MacMurtrie's tenant house a while back,' she said. 'Are there any parties around here? Any fellows to have a good time with?
~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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Many of the names on the gravestones are also the names of town roads, which reminded me of my long-ago childhood, when these roads were essentially long unpaved driveways named for the people whose farms were at the ends of them.
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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The language was also shamelessly intimate and earthy: passersby were addressed as "honey" and children as "little shits." They dubbed local landmarks Gallows Branch or Cutthroat Gap or Shitbritches Creek (in North Carolina). In Lunenberg County, Virginia, they even named two local streams Tickle Cunt Branch and Fucking Creek.
~ Arthur Herman
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Muchos hombres están en este hombre. Muchas vidas están en esta vida. Ha tenido muchos nombres. Ha tenido muchas vidas. Todos esos nombres y todas esas vidas no podrían caber en tu pobre cabeza. No podrían caber en mi pobre cabeza.
~ Arturo Uslar Pietri
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In the deep sauté, she has made a stew: eggplant and tomatoes, onions and summer squash, a sort of ratatouille, tiella, samfina, pisto , there are as many names for it as countries, and she has stopped caring for all the names of things. She has made stew, and there are ripe peaches and cream for dessert, a few bottles of wine to choose from.
~ Ashley Warlick
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Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
~ Author Unknown
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On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.
~ Joe Carnahan
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On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
~ Marc Guggenheim
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
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'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.
~ Kate Spade
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