Names Quote by Rene Magritte

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

— Rene Magritte

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

— Francis Ponge

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they…

— Anonymous

I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the…

— Philippe Starck

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

— Susan Sontag

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

— Ned Beauman

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

— Ellen Sussman

A named thing is a tamed thing.

— Joanne Harris

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

— Jodi Picoult

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is…

— Wallace Stevens

“It’s marked as an object,” Wu said. In computer terminology, an “object” was a block of code that could be moved around and used,…

— Michael Crichton