A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space a...
How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper. It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard...
Skylar is my first name and Astin is my middle name, and my real last name is Lipstein. When I was 15, I think my first agent just kind of did it for me. I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, but she said it was just less specific to one thing and sh...
When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300, and they said you cannot use it because it is taken. Pegasus Funds. Then we said Pegasus is kind of a horse. We did n...
Tuco: [trying to read a grave that is marked "Unknown"] Unk-... unk-... there's no name on it. Blondie: [showing him the stone the name was supposed to be written on stone] There's no name here, either. See, that's what Bill Carson told me... it was ...
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Gree...
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
Throw a blanket over it!
Something that is yours forever is never precious
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
My memory is good for some things and not others.
How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.
I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.
Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.
My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.
