Top 100 Names For Quotes
#1. I'm going to miss you, girls," he told the plants.
"You have names for them?" croaked Jane.
"This is Beatrice."
"You're not really a people person, are you?"
"Humans piss me off.
Adam Baker
#2. While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn't it lovely to say, "He/She suffers of Poetry?".
Ioana-Cristina Casapu
#3. They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner
#4. Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters.
Craig Alanson
#5. Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
Dale Carnegie
#6. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.
Tara Janzen
#7. The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
Aleister Crowley
#8. Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John Adams
#9. people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.
Guy Deutscher
#10. There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.
Jurgen Moltmann
#11. But his father didn't know
And his teachers didn't seem to care
Because they rewarded the ones who invented
Cruel names for the ones the teachers never
rewarded
Matthew Quick
#12. The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
#13. They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").
Kate Atkinson
#14. And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
Plato
#15. If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.
Patrick Rothfuss
#16. By the way, the best place to find names for fictional characters, if you are ever foolish enough to write a novel, is in a Bradshaw or an ABC. All the nicest people always sound like railway stations.
Beverley Nichols
#18. There are ... many ... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#19. For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.
Greg Mortenson
#21. It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass ... Music should never be harmless.
Robbie Robertson
#22. I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
Nicki Minaj
#23. Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Neil Gaiman
#24. Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
#25. Religious truth, government truth and corporate truth are names for more sinister things
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#26. Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
George Carlin
#27. Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
William James
#28. I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes ... man I dug.
Roy Eldridge
#29. She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and wind she would see a thing that sometimes comes when monotony and boredom are accepted. It's here, but I have no names for it.
Robert M. Pirsig
#30. ... and who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Tina."
"Thank goodness!" I said so loudly she stepped back. "No silly-ass overdone names for you, m'girl."
"It's short for Christina Caresse Chavelle."
"Well, you did the best you could.
MaryJanice Davidson
#31. Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are ... stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us ... People are too complicated for labels.
Philip Pullman
#32. It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases.
Alan Bradley
#33. I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations ... There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.
Teresa Jordan
#34. Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid,' 'goat who is my mother,' 'goat who is herd leader,' and half a dozen other names not least of which was 'goat who is this goat.
Terry Pratchett
#35. And in one drawer, twenty-seven names for tears. Heartdew. Griefhoney. Sadwater. Die Tranen. Eau de douleur. Los rios del corazon.
Janet Fitch
#36. To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#37. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Robert Burns
#38. I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself
wouldn't you?
Victor Robert Lee
#39. Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#40. I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer
and what trees and seasons smelled like
how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
John Steinbeck
#41. I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
Diana Gabaldon
#42. Names of regions and countries change over time, and it is sometimes common to refer to ancient lands using names assigned to them later in history. However, this linguistic custom has typically been practiced only in the absence of other known and acceptable names for the places in question.
Shlomo Sand
#43. Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.
Andrew Pyper
#44. We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional' . . . Clearly there is sanity in numbers.
Richard Dawkins
#46. Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
Erin Morgenstern
#47. The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
Victor Hugo
#48. I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk.
Joy Harjo
#49. That came out of one of the men's pockets, didn't it?" "Bald and Stubby, yeah." "Nice of you to create such respectful names for the corpses,
Lindsay Buroker
#50. I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.
Albert Jay Nock
#51. But though there were different names for God in all the different
languages in the world and God understood what all the people who
prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the
same God and God's real name was God.
James Joyce
#52. People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.
Herman Melville
#53. Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it were a new thing, and all things else that she saw seemed new and strange, for she had no names for them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved.
Margaret Atwood
#55. I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.
Margaret Atwood
#56. BOSS: We need something gross that also communicates easy-to-use. EMPLOYEE: Cheez Whiz? BOSS: Brilliant. Cheez Whiz it is. Now get back to working on names for that jar of fluffy marshmallow insides.
Jim Gaffigan
#57. No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to ... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.
Lynda Barry
#58. God, he even knew their names. Rhage. Phury. And that scary-ass Zsadist guy.
Yeah, no Tom, Dick, and Harry names for the vampire types.
But come on, could you actually imagine some lethal bloodsucker named Howard?
Eugene?
J.R. Ward
#59. An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#60. At the opposite end of the spectrum from pacifism, we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively.
Richard Dawkins
#61. What an eternal art it is
such a glittery delightful art
finding hard names for our opponents! How we do sanctify our efforts to keep them from getting the holy dollars we want for ourselves!
Sinclair Lewis
#62. Each existence depends on something else ... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.
Shunryu Suzuki
#63. I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.
Liz Greene
#64. Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
Sue Monk Kidd
#65. I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant.
Stella Young
#66. I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
Philip Pullman
#67. No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.
Douglas Adams
#68. What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
Janet Fitch
#69. I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.
Nick Harkaway
#70. Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
James F. Cooper
#71. The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to uh-oh.
Ridley Pearson
#72. She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car's hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.
Brigid Kemmerer
#73. Fate and character are different names for the same idea.
Hermann Hesse
#74. Idiot," I said, before grinning broadly and crushing his mouth to mine.
"We need to pick new pet names for each other," he muttered as I hefted myself up from the ground.
Molly Harper
#75. Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#76. The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
Norman Granz
#77. My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#78. Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
Carrie Jones
#79. Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it.
Sue Monk Kidd
#80. Garris had pet names for all of them. Mahler was the Mad Doktor. Franz Liszt was Son of Lovecraft. Mendelssohn was Santa Claus Meets the Hell's Angels. Beethoven was the High School Principal.
Chet Williamson
#81. Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
Hadewijch
#82. Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment.
Bill Johnson
#83. I have a list of pet names for Cap'n so long that it could fill a phone book (if the phone book is for a town with a population of four). I call him Cap'n Boy, Sweet Boyo, My Little Boy (done in a British accent), and when he is misbehaving, You Little Shit.
Jarod Kintz
#84. Human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.
Sally Carrighar
#85. Do they have names?"
"The red one with the silver markings is Lady Liadrin, the dark blue one is Queen Azshara, and the black one with the long, wavy fins is Lady Vashj."
She glanced at him. Those are the strangest names for fish I've ever heard. What's wrong with Dory?
Paige Tyler
#86. Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.
Peter Stillman
#87. I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.
Winston Graham
#88. Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Matthew Fox
#89. My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
#90. Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
Diane Setterfield
#91. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon
#92. I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
Spike Lee
#93. It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.
Mary Hunter Austin
#94. Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
David Byrne
#95. Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.
Dana Gould
#96. The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo
#97. Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
Pindar
#98. Who the hell knows where they get these farkakte names for their kids. One of Rita's friends named her son Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva Rosenblatt. Can you imagine? Rita always says, 'It's no big deal. They call him 'Bodi', is all.' Please. And the newspapers say I'm abusive to children?
Susan Jane Gilman
#99. Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Aldous Huxley
#100. People try to make names for things they don't understand
Rene Denfeld
