3,604 Quotes About Names

They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around—the thing gets more and more like its name.

You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?

I've outgrown my childhood name, and I haven't found a new one yet.""Ah," she cried. "Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my own heart, more like to me than my own daughter Findbhair. So I bestow on you the brave name of Maeve until such a time as another name shall claim you.

If this interpretation of nashamah by the rabbis is right ... then it is naming that creates soul.

She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names.

Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me.

Mỗi con người khi sinh ra đều là một trang giấy trắng. Cái tên chính là những con chữ màu đen lấp đầy trang giấy đó, nó theo suốt chiều dài của một con người. Những con chữ đó có thể thẳng, có thể lưa thưa, có thể co cụm, chúng có thể để lại nhiều khoảng trắng trên trang giấy, có thể kín cả trang giấy.

There's a lot you can do with a name like Amelia.You can play with it, sure, is what you think I'm going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French, I guess, like the movie (Amélie).You can step right into that name, is what I mean, and walk around. Swim with it or spill it on your shirt. Whisper it over like a sad, soft ache, or bark it out aloud like a mad, manic message: camellia, come heee-re, a-million, ah murder you, ye-eah.

Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.