Quote by Douglas Adams

Why do psychics ask you for your name?

— Anonymous

“If I couldn’t name it, would I even know what it is? Would I even feel it at all?”

— Ally Condie

“My name is Gabiella. There’s no ‘r.’” “That’s a strange name…” He looked thoughtful when he said that, like he was trying to remember…

— Melissa Giorgio

names are a way to keep people in your mind

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It would be a mistake to name them for qualities we think they have,” Samuel said. “We might be wrong—so wrong. Maybe it would…

— John Steinbeck

We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we…

— Katherine Paterson

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them.”

— John Green

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of…

— John Stuart Mill

“It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara”

— Carrie Jones

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to…

— Joshua Ferris