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- Alan Wilson Watts99◆ Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.
- Bernard Of Cluny98◆ Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.
- Anne Ylvisaker98◆ They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
- John Crowley98◆ That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.
- Jack Kerouac98◆ Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
- Joe Abercrombie98◆ And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' inside us, making us wanna be someone for those names, and not just another couple of guys who amounted to nothin' but what people said we would. No way. We're getting' out of that. We have to. We're gonna crawl and moan and fight and bite and bark at anything that gets in our way or tries to hunt us down and shoot us. All right?
- Markus Zusak98◆ My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.
- Ellen Wittlinger98◆ For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is the Welsh version of William
- Ammon Shea98◆ What's in a name?
- William Shakespeare98◆ A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin98◆ None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.
- Kendra L. Saunders98◆ You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves in the third person, like little children. They see themselves from outside their own organisms, outside their own sensory systems. In order to get further outside themselves, and help them escape their physical personality, some of them, once in the state of clairvoyance, have the curious custom of re-baptizing themselves. The dream name comes to them, no one knows whence, and by this they INSIST on being called as long as their luminous sleep endures – to the point of refusing to answer to any other name.
- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam98◆ On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie. On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names - Eleanor, Lucy, Anna, Charlotte.Jackson wondered how you decided on a name for a room. Or a doll. Or a child, for that matter. The naming of dogs seemed even more perplexing.
- Kate Atkinson98◆ New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.
- Bill Maher98
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