Name Quotes
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It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.
Brooklyn Sudano -
I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
Lao Tzu
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Lao Tzu -
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
Victor Hugo -
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Blasphemy is just the fanatic’s name for criticism.
Stéphane Charbonnier -
When did a name ever change what someone is?
Brenna Yovanoff -
When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.
Bonnie McFarlane
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I didn’t want my name that I had just built up to be tarnished.
Jordan Pruitt -
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
Ben Aaronovitch -
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel Foucault -
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake -
What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name.
Brandon Mull -
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
Evan Esar
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I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.
Susan Ford -
I think it is incredible just to see so many people there shouting your name and waving.
Ellen MacArthur -
What a fuss for a name: famous or not, it's only a ribbon tied around a sack randomly filled with blood, flesh, words, shit, and petty thoughts.
Elena Ferrante -
When you call his name, he does open his eyes. Occasionally he turns his head.
J. M. Roberts -
There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.
Elizabeth Goudge -
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word.
Haruki Murakami
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If I had to name my own sub-genre, I'd probably call it ska-folk because I think that sounds pretty cool, but that's a pretty narrow way to classify what I do as far as I can judge.
Chris Murray -
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle -
As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
George Michael -
It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara
Carrie Jones