Naming Quotes
121 quotes by 113 authors
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Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
— Brad Bird
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
— Edward Dmytryk
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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Why does naming a thing give it so much power?
— Ellen Sussman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy†to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever…
— Bell Hooks
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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
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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
— Philip Gibbs
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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
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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
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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
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Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
— Donna J. Haraway
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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
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Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.
— Julia Kristeva
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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
Who Wrote These Naming Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 121 Naming Quotes, led by these top contributors: