Humor Quote by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“By midafternoon soft snow is falling, muffling four voices that rise from the cardinal points around the circle, north, south, east, and west,intoning names…

— Peter Matthiessen

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no…

— Anna Quindlen

“Almost every name in my address book is crossed out. Two that aren’t may or may not still be alive. Another doesn’t remember who…

— Hendrik Groen

“Names etched on the head of a pin, one name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel. A blue name needled into the skin,…

— Billy Collins

“Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“And you, my friends who have been called away, I have been spared to mourn for you and weep, not as a frozen willow…

— Anna Akhmatova

“But I shall transmit their names far down the ages. These names alone will remain in the future, divested of their objects. Who, it…

— Jean Genet

“Names were important. You carried your name like a brand. You never lied about it, for fear of angering the god under which you…

— Frances Hardinge

“I collected men with interesting names.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.”

— Mary Balogh

“Won’t he ask who this other author is? This Miss Marić?” Albert was quiet. “Would you mind if I listed only my name as…

— Marie Benedict