Calling Quote by Gordon Lightfoot

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

— Simon Travaglia

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

— Jodi Picoult

People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're more comfortable…

— Blase J. Cupich

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

— Douglas Adams

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for…

— James F. Cooper

“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

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a…

— Marcel Proust

A name means a lot just by itself.

— Jenny Holzer

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words…

— Patrick Rothfuss

All names mean something.

— Salman Rushdie

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

— Jodi Picoult