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Names 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.
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander…
- 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 Names 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
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- 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