George Carlin - Quotes

 Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. '200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore' is not nearly as interesting a headline as 'Charlie kills 200.' Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.



Me, I'm still waitin' for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn't hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. 'Hell no, we ain't evacuatin'. Ed's comin'! 

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Jhumpa Lahiri - Quotes

 Pet names are persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. 

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George Carlin - Quotes

 There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi. 

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Neil Gaiman - Quotes

 Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. 

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Kate Morton - Quotes

 I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. 

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Rick Riordan - Quotes

 You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you  

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Jerry Spinelli - Quotes

 Who are you?'

I didn't understand the question.

I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'

I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. 

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Lewis Carroll - Quotes

 Must a name mean something? 

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W. Somerset Maugham - Quotes

 The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them. 

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Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. 

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Lisa Kleypas - Quotes

 Captain Phelan and I dislike each other, 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world. 

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 I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord

For I have spread the seed of the Word. 

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Jerry Spinelli - Quotes

 Every name is real. That's the nature of names. 

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Ray Bradbury - Quotes

 It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. 

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Jack Kerouac - Quotes

 That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies. 

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Kate Douglas Wiggin - Quotes

 A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named. 

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Confucius - Quotes

 If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. 

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Masashi Kishimoto - Quotes

 Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!

Gaara: I couldn't care less. 

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Jean-Paul Sartre - Quotes

 I confused things with their names: that is belief. 

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Charles de Lint - Quotes

 A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Names are not always what they seem. 

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Cormac McCarthy - Quotes

 Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world. 

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Kim Edwards - Quotes

 Norah looked at her son 

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Marisa de los Santos - Quotes

 When he looked up, he said,  

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Dylan Thomas - Quotes

  Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name. 

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Michael Ventura - Quotes

 That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. 

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Jodi Picoult - Quotes

 Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. 

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Stan Brakhage - Quotes

 How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of  

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Rick Riordan - Quotes

 Names have power. 

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Ben Jonson - Quotes

 Indeed there's a woundy luck in names. 

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Booth Tarkington - Quotes

 Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.  

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Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - Quotes

 You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves in the third person, like little children. They see themselves from outside their own organisms, outside their own sensory systems. In order to get further outside themselves, and help them escape their physical personality, some of them, once in the state of clairvoyance, have the curious custom of re-baptizing themselves. The dream name comes to them, no one knows whence, and by this they INSIST on being called as long as their luminous sleep endures  

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Neil Gaiman - Quotes

 Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names. 

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Jerry Spinelli - Quotes

 I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away. 

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Pablo Neruda - Quotes

 Then love knew it was called love.

And when I lifted my eyes to your name,

suddenly your heart showed me my way 

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