Contradictory Quote by Charles de Lint

A name means a lot just by itself.

— Jenny Holzer

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s…

— John Cassavetes

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

— Lois Lowry

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

— Doug McClure

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;…

— Stefan Zweig

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that…

— Tony Evans

There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only…

— Diane Setterfield

Names are not always what they seem.

— Mark Twain

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

— Travis Beacham

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

— W. H. Auden