Top 100 Names To Quotes
#1. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Oscar Wilde
#2. I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
Charles Bukowski
#3. I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
Damian Kulash
#4. You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.
Dan Millman
#5. Constance could put names to all the growing things, but I was content to know them by their way and place of growing, and their unfailing offers of refuge.
Shirley Jackson
#6. Lots of people go through life not having the slightest idea what names to put in the blanks on their "Who Am I?" work sheets, and they aren't bothered in the least by it.
Meg Cabot
#7. I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
Ian Williams
#8. They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato
#9. It is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
Desiderius Erasmus
#10. Not fair," Quentin said. "She's the one insulting us, and she gets to walk away?" "Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality," I said. "Now drink your soda and help me think of nasty names to call her next time she shows up.
Seanan McGuire
#11. It's convenient how men get to sign their names to these little creations without doing much more than having an orgasm and assembling a crib.
Tarryn Fisher
#12. A true revival not looking for the great names to grace the stage but the Greatest Name to Consume the Altar
Louis
#13. That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.
Brene Brown
#14. I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.
Holly Johnson
#15. That's a lot of Bens to hold in your head at once. I should give them different names to keep them straight: Ben, Has-Ben, and What-Might-Have-
Ben.
Rick Yancey
#16. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Oscar Wilde
#17. My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.
Edward Snowden
#18. You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Jane Austen
#19. Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.
Jenna McCarthy
#20. They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato
#21. Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. What bothers me is that health professionals give fancy names to conditions or learning difficulties that will irritate the patients; like OCD not being in alphabetical order, putting an 'S' in 'lisp,' and making dyslexia a word that no one can spell. It's just mean.
Suzanne Wright
#23. Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection ...
Allen Tate
#24. The chance for names to be words, without the burden of emotion. Or hurt. She
Mark T. Barnes
#25. I'd learned my lesson well by that point. Why make a bad situation worse by calling it names to its face?
Louisa Hall
#26. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
Vera Nazarian
#27. My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.
Gigi Hadid
#29. Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself."
"Suck my dick ... whore!
Ilona Andrews
#30. God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
William Gurnall
#31. Pomona's Tom's age and lucky enough to be as pretty as her name - so dangerous, don't you think, giving romantic names to little scraps who may grow up as plain as doorposts.
A.S. Byatt
#32. Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.
Veronika Varekova
#33. Some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future
David Coleman
#34. Dead man, listen well. The Great Keep is not like the Otherworld. The Great Keep has many names. To the Norse it is Valhalla, Hall of the Lords. To the Greeks it is Olympus. There are as many names as there are men who would speak them.
Kami Garcia
#35. I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.
Anthony Liccione
#36. Mom calls me Patch-a-roo and Patch-a-roo-ny. She usually croons these names to me or crows them as if she's imitating the rooster. I know this is a little odd, but I'm a really special dog. Of course, sometimes she calls me Stink-a-roo.
Lea Beall
#37. Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.
Lucretius
#38. The neighbourhood is a place of ... intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
Nadeem Aslam
#39. If you have assigned any names to the Columns, by pressing F3 all the names will get displayed. Extremely useful when you are entering a formula, you can press this shortcut and all the defined names will be displayed.
Vijay Kumar
#40. If we all had names to suit us, you'd be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods."I prickled at his scathing tone. "And you'd be Miserable Blockhead.""Is that the best you can do?""Give me time. I'm half frozen." "Perhaps your name should be Icy Tyrant. No, wait. Frigid Despot.
Elly Blake
#41. We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist thereafter, and its existence will be clearly perceived. The name enables me to see it. I can call it by its name, and I can see it for what it is.
N. Scott Momaday
#42. And you're welcome to whatever you put a name to. Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly,
Charles Dickens
#43. There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!
Max Shulman
#44. Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
Robert Breault
#45. The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#46. Gave their (right) names to things without seeing them;
Lao-Tzu
#47. Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#48. It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn
#49. It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.
Glenn Close
#50. I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past ... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been?
Cornelia Funke
#53. Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
#54. I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It's more respectable that way. It tells them they're one of us and reminds us of the same.
Karina Halle
#55. A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.
Charley Pride
#56. UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#57. Never trust a woman who gives funny names to means of transport.
Terry Pratchett
#58. Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Edmund Burke
#59. It's not that nobody ever gets away: that's not true. It's that you carry it with you. It doesn't matter that the days roll on like hills too low to give names to; they might be of use later, so you keep them. You replay them to keep their memory alive. It feels worthwhile because it is.
John Darnielle
#60. Don't make trouble at the pub tonight, Wayne," the man intoned in response. "My temper is really short." "Temper?" Wayne said, passing him. "That's a funny name for it, mate, but if the ladies like you givin' silly names to your body parts, I ain't gonna say nothin'.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. Made me wonder whether putting names to time made much of a difference anyway. What did it measure? Not how much life passes. Hell no. Your whole life can pass and be changed in a second or in a century. Don't matter.
Robert Hicks
#62. I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.
Kevin Kwan
#63. People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
Sam Lipsyte
#64. We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Laozi
#65. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
Gustave Flaubert
#67. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Betty Friedan
#68. There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
Michael Anti
#69. Maya, having recently made her way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy, names it Bag End. "Because it looks as if a hobbit might live here." A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.
Gabrielle Zevin
#70. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George Eliot
#71. The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.
Elana Dykewomon
#72. You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God ...
Frank Zappa
#73. In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
Madeleine L'Engle
#74. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#75. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#76. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#77. Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.
Gabriel Iglesias
#78. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.
Nicholas Trandahl
#80. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.
Bill Vaughan
#81. Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
George Vecsey
#82. We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
William Barclay
#83. History is not just a tale of men's making, but is a thing tied to the land. We call a hill by the name of a hero who died there, or name a river after a princess who fled beside its banks, and when the old names vanish, the stories go with them and the new names carry no reminder of the past.
Bernard Cornwell
#84. I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make it into a weapon and let it boomerang back to those who uttered it. Just don't let it overpower your life.
Sweety Shinde
#85. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.
Anne Rice
#86. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.
Paul Baribeau
#87. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.
Leona Lewis
#88. My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it ...
Ellen DeGeneres
#89. The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
E. M. Forster
#90. Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
Blaise Pascal
#91. 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
#92. I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.
Alan Arkin
#93. Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.
Tom Brokaw
#94. The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.
George Preston Marshall
#95. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?
Geena Rocero
#97. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!
Stephen Richards
#98. We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
Rick Mercer
#99. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Ambrose Bierce
#100. Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
