Quotes About Names

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Le dimanche, les gens n'ont pas de sobriquet, on les appelle tout bêtement par leurs vrais noms qui ne leur vont guère mieux que ces habits qu'on garde avec soin pour quand on sera mort, bien pliés dans un coffre.

I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into.

Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face

I'm a great test-taker," she explained. "I'm great at guessing what teachers are going to ask, and I can store dates and names like it's nobody's business. It was never a question of how much I knew, but how many correct answers I got. If I had thought about it, I would have realized that I had forgotten most of what I 'learned' three months or a semester later. But I never thought about my education. Why would I? I wasn't going to be tested on it.

Assignments to instance attributes create or change the names in the instance, rather than in the shared class.

Assignments to instance attributes create or change the names in the instance, rather than in the shared class. More generally, inheritance searches occur only on attribute references, not on assignment:

In general, you can define collector modules that import all the names from other modules so they're available in a single convenience module.

Operator overloading is coded in a Python class with specially named methods; they all begin and end with double underscores to make them unique. These are not built-in or reserved names; Python just runs them automatically when an instance appears in the corresponding operation.

getattr employs the inheritance search protocol, and some of the names we're listing here are not stored on the instance itself.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face.

Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.

Anyone who thinks it's funny to name their network "Tom'sHugeEtc" is going to think it's funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.

No, " said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Well I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said - 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way.

The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking.