Naming Quotes

121 quotes by 113 authors

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real. — Brad Bird
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. — Edward Dmytryk
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Why does naming a thing give it so much power? — Ellen Sussman
In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and… — Joan D. Chittister
I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting… — Damien Hirst
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens… — Jacques Derrida
Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet… — David Letterman
I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his… — Domhnall Gleeson
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase â€œimperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchyâ€ to describe our nationâ€™s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever… — Bell Hooks
I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I… — David First
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. — Philip Gibbs
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel… — Beth Ditto
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the… — Ian Mcewan
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini… — Tom Waits
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering,… — Pablo Neruda
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components â€“ that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. — Julia Kristeva
The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.… — Cormac McCarthy

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