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Name Quotes by James Joyce
- I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
- and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
- In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed…
- What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
- Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of…
More Name Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker