Quotes of: Naming Keyword

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes...

The Two Towers

[Vito returns years later to Sicily and meets Don Ciccio, the man who murdered Vito's family] Don Ciccio: I see you took the name of the town. What was your father's name? Vito Corleone: Antonio Andolini. Don Ciccio: You'll have to speak up. I can't ...

The Godfather: Part II

Kent Mansley: [after his first meeting with the Hughes family] HoGARTH? What an embarrassing name. Might as well call him Zeppo, or something like that. What kind of sick person would name a kid Hogar... [stops and looks over to Hogarth's smashed B-B...

The Iron Giant

Michael: What's your name? Hanna Schmitz: What? Michael: Your name. Hanna Schmitz: Why do you want to know? Michael: I've been here three times. I want to know your name. What's wrong with that? Hanna Schmitz: Nothing, kid. There's nothing wrong with...

The Reader

He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.

Irish

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Coraline

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Code Name Verity

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Code Name Verity

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

The Devil's Arithmetic

Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

A Girl Named Digit

The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.

A Girl Named Digit

Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.

The Betrayal Knows My Name, Volume 2

He says he wants more carrots and bread crumbs!

Best of Catbug: My Name is Catbug, What's Yours?

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Richard Branson

The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to.

$3.33

If my last name were Marriagenowsky, and I met another girl with that name, guess what I’d want to do? That’s right—get divorced.

$3.33

My cat’s name is Mr. Dog, and My penis’ name is Mr. Beaver. Ah, but that’s life, no?

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Politicians give criminals a bad name. A bad name like a bad word like shit.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us,” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.

An Airship Named Desire

May as well have ox blood running through those veins,” I added, “You’re as stubborn as one.

An Airship Named Desire