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Names Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
- The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a…
- Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name…
- I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a…
- My name is only an anagram of toilets.
- The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
- The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,…
- He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing;…
- With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say,…
- Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And…
- I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
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