Naming Quotes

121 Naming quotes by 113 unique authors

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's… — Jay London
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,… — Helen Keller
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during… — Bruce Chatwin
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how… — Humphrey Carpenter
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear. — Bruce Lee
There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point.… — Faith Hill
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against… — Lloyd Alexander
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve… — Paulo Freire
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push… — May Sarton
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or… — Eve Ensler
The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available. — Bill Murray
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about… — Camille
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is… — Laozi
The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you… — Matt Shea
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with… — Abraham Maslow
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they… — Thom Yorke
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads… — Lisa Snowdon
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint… — Alain de Botton
I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this. — Roman Abramovich
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. — Mary Daly
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

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113 authors contributed a total of 121 Naming Quotes, led by these top contributors: