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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one.

— Carrie Nugent

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I remember when I was in Almeria they called me 'the octopus' because I stole a lot of balls.

— Thomas Partey

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

— Alex Garland

The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch…

— Franny Billingsley

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

— Carrie Nugent

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast: first to…

— Salman Rushdie

How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a…

— Margaret MacMillan

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

— Giambattista Valli

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons…

— Pablo Picasso