| Author |
Quotes |
| Humphrey Gifford | I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade. |
| Ian Williams | I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. |
| John Carpenter | In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. |
| John Carpenter | In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. |
| John Dalberg Acton | Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing. |
| Josephine Baker | I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace. |
| Madonna | I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. |
| Margaret Atwood | The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. |
| Mel Brooks | Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. |
| Pat Day | I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. |
| Plato | They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
| Richard Watson Gilder | My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. |
| Thomas C Haliburton | Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. |
| Thomas Campbell | Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly | Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word. - Thomas Haynes Bayly, |
| W H Auden | Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. |
| William Drummond | He lives who dies to win a lasting name. |
| Henry David Thoreau | If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. |
| Henry David Thoreau | However mean your life is, meet it and live it, do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. |
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