Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...” — Joann Sfar Copy Share Image
“A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.” — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn't make it real. Doesn't make it true.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Your name could mean to excel and you could be useless and crap at everything. You can put a name on anything, call it… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".” — Lori Duron Copy Share Image
“You don't just choose a name at random. A name is a name. A major responsibility.” — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
