Actor Quote by Bruno Latour

“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known…

— Marc Bloch

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

— Joni Mitchell

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve…

— Chauncey Depew

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

— Lisa Loeb

“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”

— Lao Tzu

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”

— Lao Tzu

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For Silas, Lichport was only a name, like that of a distant cousin or a dead relative he’d never met. Familiar but abstract.”

— Ari Berk

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real…

— Holly Black

“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”

— Sarah Manguso