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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde

I'm running out of names. There aren't that many vile things on this earth that can describe what a cum dumpster you are. — Karina Halle

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value. — Adrian Pasdar

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things. — Sebastian Barry

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. — Bob Dylan

We have secured names and trademarks with either loose ideas or intentions, or with our imaginations. Sometimes things come of it, or they don't. — Mickey Drexler

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. — Confucius

Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity? — Carrie Jones

I sometimes wonder about all of that. Gods, their commands, all the things people do in their names. Is any of it what they really want? — Peter Tieryas

Names are just our way of forgetting things. — Marty Rubin

Of Beginnings and the Names of Things S — Patrick Rothfuss

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use. — Johnny Weir

But of course names were secret things, full of power. And — Stephen King

And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats. — Samuel Beckett

Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears. — Carole King

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world ... — Dean Koontz

Cats can get by without names. We go by smell, shape, things of this nature. As long as we know these things, there're no worries for us. — Haruki Murakami

Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to — J.R.R. Tolkien

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things. — Jane Kenyon

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival, — Colin Farrell

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. — John Perry Barlow

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things. — James F. Cooper

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. — Saul Bellow

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle. — Laozi

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden ... name things as I find them. — Charles Dudley Warner

Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them. — Thomas E. Kennedy

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ and therefore I shy away from church. — John Lennon

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God, — John Le Carre

People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine — Jamie Delano

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name. — Emma Goldman

Young man, names are powerful things. You don't just go around using them for no reason. — Rick Riordan

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances. — Mickey Gilley

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. — Galileo Galilei

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things. — James Meek

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names. — Helen Oyeyemi

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. — Neil Gaiman

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us. — Jodi Picoult

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods. — Megan Whalen Turner

Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect. — Herbert Muschamp

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true? — Hugh Nibley

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. — Benjamin Franklin

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things. — David Duchovny

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure. — Cindy Sheehan

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes. — Robert Altman

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception. — Dan Millman

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels ... Potatoes! Bread! — Jennifer Lawrence

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. — Angela Carter

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names. — E. O. Wilson

A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same. — George MacDonald

You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it? — Bruce Chatwin

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too. — Carl Linnaeus