Eponymous Quotes

#1. The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably.

Stephen King

#2. It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

Erasmus Darwin

#4. We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

William Hazlitt

#5. You are woven into my soul and you are wrapped around my heart.

Emma Chase

#6. It's not a good idea to mess with a woman who has a pimple

Janet Evanovich

#7. People hurt others all the time, even when they loved them. Especially when they loved them. It was usually because they were in pain themselves.

Belinda Alexandra

#8. Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

Nick Burd

#9. Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?

Alan G. Robinson

#10. I belong to NO ONE. But my heart belongs to you

Sarah J. Maas

#11. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Oli Anderson

#12. Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Hanne Blank

#13. These headsets could pick up a spider scratching in Madagascar." "And is there a spider scratching in Madagascar?" "Well ... I don't know. They can't really -

Eoin Colfer

#14. In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

Peter York

#15. You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable.
-Eponymous Clent

Frances Hardinge

#16. Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

Peter York

#17. As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

Thomas Hobbes

#18. Blay's head whipped around to his mate. "Really? You asked my dad?" Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. "It's my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.

J.R. Ward