Naming Quotes
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There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.
— Alison Croggon
Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.
— John Caples
Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.
— 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
I'm not a synonym - I'm a proper noun.
— Clarice Lispector
She started naming the fish. 'Loppy, Troppy, Hoppy, Soppy, Boppy, Floppy, Moppy and Roppy.
— Deepika Kumaaraguru
We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
— Alistair Cockburn
She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ...
— Thomm Quackenbush
Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble.
— Kelley Armstrong
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
— Dylan Lauren
Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.
— Nihad Sirees
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
— Richard Eyre
You give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life.
— Eleanor Catton
When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!
— Demetri Martin
Whoever was responsible for naming the fae races should really have put more thought into making them pronounceable when drunk.
— Seanan McGuire
To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.
— Gregory Woods
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
— Philip Gibbs
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.
— Doug Cooper
Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.
— Edward Abbey
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
— Cory Doctorow
Catharine Victoria Santoro di Valleria." Cat blinked. "Why are you 'full naming' me?
— Marianne Knightly
We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.
— Rostam Batmanglij
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
— Charlie Bell
I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!
— Anne Hathaway
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
— John Crowley
I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".
— Mitch Hedberg
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
— Bruce Lee
Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.
— Charles Wright
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
— Edward Dmytryk
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
— Elias Canetti
Naming nature doesn't tame nature.
— Cameron Conaway
Why does naming a thing give it so much power?
— Ellen Sussman
Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.
— Cassandra Clare
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
— Lloyd Alexander
I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
— ASAP Rocky
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I am NOT naming our child Buford ... — Cassandra Clare
The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.
— John Elder Robison
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.
— Hillel Neuer
Naming can limit as well as empower.
— Loraine Hutchins
I like naming characters.
— Roddy Doyle
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
— Jim Capaldi
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
— Alice Hoffman
I didn't even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn't need one to know her. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
First off, what the hell kind of name is that? Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean
I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.
— Roman Abramovich
And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.
— Terry Gross
We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves.
— Kirsty Murray
Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.
— Colin Trevorrow
If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.
— George Friedman
Why don't you join us? You can be Chief in Charge of Running Away Scared and Naming Things. -Allie
— Rebecca Espinoza
But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence?
— Carolyn McCray
Craig, he says, in that tone that's like, I'm one step away from middle-naming you.
— Hannah Moskowitz
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
— George Kaiser
In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
— Ann Voskamp
He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.
— Geraldine Brooks
Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
As noted, naming a book after someone significant was a common way of honoring that person and reflecting his views.
— Reza Aslan
Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.
— Robin Hobb
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
— Theodore Bikel
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
— Donna J. Haraway
Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ...
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
