Appropriateness Quote by James Joyce

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

— W. H. Auden

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say…

— Vikram Seth

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names. There was a time when each man had a name of…

— Ayn Rand

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

— Tallulah Bankhead

With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?

— Burt Hochberg

I could keep McQuiston, but growing up it was a hard-work surname. Everyone would always ask me to spell it or just get it…

— Emma Weymouth

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________,

— Rick Riordan

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

— Leigh-Allyn Baker

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

— Travis Beacham

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

— Doug McClure

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting…

— Ian Fleming