#names

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #names




I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.


Serena Williams


#butterfly #call #court #different #different names

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.


William Hazlitt


#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

They call me, The Sharkalator


James Patterson


#funny #gazzy #maximum-ride #name-calling #nicknames

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.


T.S. Eliot


#bribery #cats #food #friendship #names

Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless." "I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted. "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.


Norton Juster


#mathematics #names #equality

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.


J.K. Rowling


#names #inspirational

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


Jane Yolen


#life

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.


Justin Amash


#arguably #engage #improper #legislation #names

Everybody should customize their names.


Charles Baxter


#love

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!


Thanhha Lai


#insideoutandbackagain #life #love #refugees #saigon