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A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in... More
A good name is better than precious ointment. More
A man is murdered a mile away. And do you know what killed him? My name. The very name of... More
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce... More
A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I’ve been called by a million names all my life. I don’t... More
All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains: More
All things seem mention of themselves
And the names which stem from them branch out to other... More
Anything we saw
And thus fastened on
With an epithet,
We would see to yet
We... More
At present our only true names are nicknames. More
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As ‘Slimy skin’, or... More
Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud,
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies
And... More
Bystanders paused. I blabbed my name.
He frowned. “Naw, that ain’t it,” he said. More
Call me Snake. More
Call Tullia’s ape a marmasyte
And Leda’s goose a swan. More
Cinna. I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Fourth Plebian. It is no matter, his name’s Cinna!... More
Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon... More
DEAR WALDO,—For I think I have heard that that is your name.... Whatever I may call you, I know... More
Don’t ask me to give a name to something which hasn’t got a name. More
Elementary propositions consist of names. More
Ellie: By the way, what’s your name?
Peter: What’s that?
Ellie: Who are... More
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call... More
Ferdinand. I do beseech you—
Chiefly that I may set it in my prayers—
What is your... More
First Plebian. Tear him to pieces, he’s a conspirator!
Cinna. I am Cinna the poet! I am... More
Flower Belle! What a euphonious appellation! Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes! More
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
roots of pine trees pushed... More
Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel
Made Maple first take notice of her name.
She... More
Humbert Humbert. What a thrillingly different name. More
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women... More
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. More
I don’t like your miserable lonely single “front name.” It is so limited, so meagre; it has... More
I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs. More
I have fallen in love with American names, More
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald... More
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am... More
I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of... More
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them. More
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same... More
I would rather make my name than inherit it. More
In keeping with the spirit of passionate experimentation of the Dead Poets, I’m giving up the... More
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears.... More
Is not the king’s name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject... More
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are... More
It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be... More
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame. More
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. More
It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a... More
I’m a man ... I’m Amanda. More
I’m not going to call a dog ‘Dog.’ I suppose if she were a baby you’d call her ‘Person.’ More
Jaques. Rosalind is your love’s name?
Orlando. Yes, just.
Jaques. I do not like her... More
Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much... More
Ma’am! What am I your maiden aunt? Call me Mrs. Aragon. Call me Belle. Call me madame if... More
Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they... More
Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss,... More
My name is Frankenstein, I’ll admit. But it’s a large family, you know, remarkable since the... More
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I... More
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried,... More
No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something? More
No, no! I don’t, I don’t want to know your name. You don’t have a name, and I don’t have... More
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or if thou... More
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour’d his relics... More
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed! More
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. More
Ratso Rizzo: Joe, do me a favor, huh? This is my place, am I wrong?
Joe Buck: No, you ain’t... More
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that... More
Since you were so thankfully confused
By law with someone else, you cannot... More
Slim/Marie Brown: Whadya think you’re gonna do?
Harry Morgan: I’m gonna get that wallet,... More
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has... More
The King’s name is a tower of strength. More
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not... More
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. More
the processes
That first mentioned your name at some crowded cocktail
Party long ago, and... More
The psychologist called him a psychopath. They didn’t know what else to call him. More
The tombstone told when she died.
Her two surnames stopped me still.
A virgin married at... More
Then is it scentless, weightless, strengthless, wholly
Untruthful? Try whispering it... More
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing.... More
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We’re going... More
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no... More
To an extinct race it was grass-ground, where they hunted and fished; and it is still perennial... More
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the... More
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. More
Wachusett hides its lingering voice
Within its rocky heart,
And Allegheny graves its... More
Watt’s need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on... More
We crossed a deep and wide bay which makes eastward north of Kineo, leaving an island on our... More
We do what we must, and call it by the best names. More
We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We... More
What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The... More
What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to... More
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. More
Wheeler: Aren’t you the fellow the Mexicans used to call “Brachine”?
Dude: That’s... More
When looking over a list of men’s names in a foreign language, as of military officers, or of... More
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her. More
Ye say they all have passed away,
That noble race and brave;
That their light canoes have... More
You were created of your name, the word
Is that of which you were the personage.
There is... More
Your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamith. More
“Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
“Of course it must,” Humpty... More

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