Naming Quotes

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. (T. S. Eliot)
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities. View quote
Alain de Botton
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. View quote
Ian McEwan
I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it so I'd buy a baby naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going. View quote
Nigella Lawson
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. View quote
Adrienne Rich
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. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.' For the loser now will be later to win. View quote
Bob Dylan
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft. View quote
Alberto Manguel
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. View quote
Jay London
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe. (Anne Enright)
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. View quote
Julia Kristeva
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. View quote
Barbara Deming
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. View quote
Edward Dmytryk
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. View quote
Jim Capaldi
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy. View quote
Noah Wyle
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. View quote
Richard V. Allen
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. View quote
Richard V. Allen
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)
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. View quote
Cory Doctorow
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. View quote
Paul Hawken
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. View quote
Harper Lee
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. View quote
Thom Yorke