Quotes of: Naming Keyword

My voice smells like a shout. Especially when I eat silence.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

I shot a deaf man. And just to be sure, I used a silencer.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Mr. Armstrong has strong arms. Probably from bicycling so much. And steroids.


The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.

In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

The Name of the Rose

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

The Name of the Rose

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

The Name of the Rose

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

The Name of the Star

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

No Name in the Street

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

The Name of the Wind

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

The Name of the Wind

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

The Name of the Wind

What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.

The Name of the Wind

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

The Name of the Wind

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

The Name of the Wind

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

The Name of the Wind

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

Les Misérables

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

Les Misérables

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

The Last Unicorn

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

The Satanic Verses