Names Quotes - Page 26

• We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  World, Absurd, Select

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.

  Andrea Gibson

  Ice, Yesterday, Doors

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• I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Men, Long

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• In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Successful, Years

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• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Self Reliance, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America

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• For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

  Ken Kesey

  Taken, Love Is, Doors

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• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Labyrinth, Criminal Mind, Open Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

  Confucius

  Language, Rectification, Ifs

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Half, Handwriting, Matter

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• Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

  Frank O'Hara

  Heart, Broken, Venture

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

  Loretta Chase

  Eye, Heart, Skulls

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• It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Eye, Mirrors

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Labels, Loved Ones

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

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• Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

  Chris Wooding

  Once Upon A Time, Poison, Young

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.206, Scholastic UK

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• We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

  Loretta Chase

  Christian, Mean, Giving

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• Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Art, Lying, Writing

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• You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable.

  Ilona Andrews

  Should, Fezzik

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• The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Children, Distance

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• instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Rainbow, Hopeful

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.156, Penguin

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• Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Feet, People

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• Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Ravens, Sorrow

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• If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

  John Berger

  Events, Would Be, Needs

  John Berger (2011). “Once in Europa”, p.82, Vintage

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