Quotes About Names

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

A boy and a girl, I forget their names. The two of them seemed to be a pair. The girl had hair like a raven and the boy looked a bit like Byron. They were interested in poetry. They had a little light behind the eyes. The girl asked me about Dorothy Parker

The facts in this story are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their lives so that their secrets are safe.

Ultimately, tonight's not about the disagreements Governor Romney and I may have. It's what we have in common, beginning with our unusual names. Actually, Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name." (Obama, Barack Hussein, D-Ill., U.S. president; Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner; New York, N.Y.; 10/18/2012.)

once you pack in all the Lafrenières, Borés, Macartys, Chauvins, Viellards, Boisclaires, Boisblancs, and Lebedoyere connections, even if they don't have dancing afterward—which they will

Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose?

We call these books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John because they are named after two of Jesus's earthly disciples, Matthew the tax collector and John the beloved disciple, and two of the close companions of other apostles, Mark the secretary of Peter and Luke the traveling companion of Paul.

Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. It was pronounced shuh-TEED but was in fact spelled "Shithead."*

Mientras discutía acerca de su investigación sobre los nombres en un programa de radio, Roland G. Fryer Jr. aceptó una llamada de una mujer negra que se sentía disgustada por el nombre que acababan de dar a su sobrina recién nacida. Se pronunciaba shuh-Teed, pero en realidad se escribía como «Shithead» [tonta, despreciable].

Social psychology, the science of how people behave toward one another, is often a mishmash of interesting phenomena that are "explained" by giving them fancy names. Missing is the rich deductive structure of other sciences, in which a few deep principles can generate a wealth of subtle predictions—the kind of theory that scientists praise as "beautiful" or

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Although Ryan hardly knew the person whose breath was playing over his cheek any better than he had mere seconds before, the simple exchange of names—or initials—had raised the bar for the encounter from anonymously seedy to merely impulsive. He'd always admired impulsiveness, though he'd never successfully cultivated the tendency in himself. Impulsive people seemed to get what they wanted. And if not, they looked like they had a lot of fun trying.

Los nombres terminan conformando a las personas y quien deja escapar el suyo también abraza otro destino.

Tree: My name is Tree. I didn't mean to tease. I didn't realize it would upset you. Violetpaw: My name is Violetpaw. Tree: That's a pretty name. Violetpaw: Don't start flirting again! Tree: I'm not. It's just a pretty name. Most cats I meet are named Rocky or Snake or something dumb like that. My name's Tree.

As Firestar entered, Sandstorm drowsily raised her head. "I thought of some names," she murmured. "How do you like Squirrelkit and Leafkit?

Redtail?" Firepaw echoed, thoroughly confused by all these names.

The new apprentices are called Myrtlepaw and Baypaw," she whispered. "Aren't ThunderClan names strange?

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints.

IOI required its egg hunters, which it referred to as "oologists," to use their employee numbers as their OASIS avatar names. These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral "6," so everyone began calling them the Sixers. These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)

There is much written today about Command Performances. Well, my mother made three--all in my grandmother's house in Philadelphia, and their names were Lionel, Ethel and John.

Any time that we move from personal names to abstract labels or graphs or statistics, we are less in touch with reality and diminished in our capacity to deal with what is best and at the center of life. Yet we are encouraged on every side to do just that.