Quotes of: Name Keyword

I’d like to open a restaurant. Would you eat at a place called Filthy’s?  The name would be better than the food, which in turn would be better than the service.

Sleepwalking is restercise

I looked up from my paper and tried to remember her name. I was drawing a blank. That’s what happens when I doodle in invisible ink. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.

Serena

If my name were Oscar, I’d want to be an actor and win my namesake award and take back my identity.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I can read people like an open book, especially if their named Braille, and I’m in a touchy-feely mood.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

Suddenly Last Summer

Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.

The Sunne in Splendour

He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men’s feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car’s hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.

Storm

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Seven Years in Tibet

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The Satanic Verses

Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, muc...

This is a Book

But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

The Titan's Curse

Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips. "I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.

The Tale of Despereaux

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

Ten Things We Did

Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse to follow His ways.

A Twist of Faith

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

One Hundred Names

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

In One Person

He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!

The Perfumed Garden

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The Picture of Dorian Gray