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Names Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
- Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
- EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
- I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more…
- But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
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