Quotes of: Naming Keyword

My cousin. His name is Abel. He is two years older than I. Next to my father, he is dearest to my heart.

Skye

There must be a mistake," I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?

My Favorite Mistake

It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.

A moment with God ; Poetry

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Moon Over Soho

Who the hell is that?! Some call her Satan. Others, Beelzebub. She goes by many names.

Natural Born Charmer

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

A Night of Frivolity

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

The Naming

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Nobody Knows My Name

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

North and South

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

Night Time Losing Time

True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Our Lady of the Circus

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

One Day

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

On Liberty

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.

The Leader of Lors

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

Lilith

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Les Misérables

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

Live by Night

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

The Lightning Thief