Naming Quotes

121 Naming quotes by 113 unique authors

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic… — Naomi Wolf
Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way.… — Rob Sheffield
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl. — Dylan Lauren
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people… — Linus Torvalds
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. — Chris Ware
None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to… — George Burns
Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and… — Groucho Marx
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming… — Andy Richter
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 “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’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

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