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Names Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort…
- Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
- People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave…
- My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
- Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not…
- Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.
- Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
- Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.…
- They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is…
- My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very…
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