Proper names are poetry in the raw.
Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
?W. H. Auden
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women
to indicate that they are in the market. Miss,
Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most
distinctly disagreeable words in the language,
in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress,
the other of Master. If we must have them, let us
be consistent and give one to the unmarried man.
I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
?Ambrose Bierce
You should never name an animal
which is not yours to keep,
or which you intend to eat.
?Deborah Boliver Boehm
In England, I'm a horror movie
director. In Germany, I'm a
filmmaker. In the United
States, I'm a bum.
?John Carpenter
Any child can tell you that the sole
purpose of a middle name is so he can
tell when he's really in trouble.
?Dennis Frakes
The invisible thing called a Good Name
is made up of the breath of
numbers that speak well of you.
?Edward F. Halifax
I sometimes think I was born to live up to
my name. How could I be anything else but what
I am having been named Madonna?
I would either have ended up a nun or this.
?Madonna
If the fairest features of the landscape are
to be named after men, let them be
the noblest and worthiest men alone.
?Henry David Thoreau
I don't like giving names to generations.
It's like trying to read the song title
on a record that's spinning.
?Ian Williams
They certainly give very strange
names to diseases.
?Plato
Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees, then
names the streets after them.
?Bill Vaughn
File names are infinite in length where
infinity is set to 255 characters.
?Peter Collinson,
"The Unix File System"
Having supplied them with names,
omnipotence, justice, knowledge,
providence, - what are they?
?Anonymous
However mean your life is, meet it and
live it; do not shun it and call it hard
names. It is not so bad as you are. It
looks poorest when you are the richest.
?Henry David Thoreau
A good name, like good will,
is attained by many actions
and may be lost by one.
?Anonymous
One forgets words as one forgets
names. One's vocabulary needs
constant fertilizing or it will die
?Evelyn Waugh
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow
because it was important to them;
there ought to be as many for love.
?Margaret Atwood
I came to live in a country I love;
some people label me a defector.
I have loved men and women in my life;
I've been labeled "the bisexual defector."
Want to know another secret? I'm even
ambidextrous. I don't like labels.
Just call me Martina.
?Martina Navratilova
I decided that I would be one of the biggest
new names; and I actually had some little fancy
business cards printed up to announce it,
"Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."
?Count Basie
I was learning the importance of names --
having them, making them -- but at the
same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition
was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose
victims disappeared without a trace.
?Josephine Baker
Every human being has hundreds of
separate people living under his skin.
The talent of a writer is his ability to give
them their separate names, identities,
personalities and have them relate to
other characters living with him.
?Mel Brooks
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off
names in an address book.
?Ronald Blythe
Guard against the prestige of
great names; see that your judgments
are your own; and do not shrink from
disagreement; no trusting without testing.
?John Dalberg Acton
Nicknames stick to people, and the most
ridiculous are the most adhesive.
?Thomas C. Haliburton
