Names Quotes - Page 34

• Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Song, Wind

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• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

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• Sisters-the ones we share last names with and the ones we choose-are the lining of every woman's soul.

  Kris Radish

  Soul, Lasts, Share

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• Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.151, Penguin

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• When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Cat, Years, Class

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• After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

  Richelle Mead

  Light, Important, Three

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

  Suzanne Collins

  Twelve

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.106, Scholastic UK

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• So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Katniss, Luck

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

  Robin McKinley

  Needs, Where You Live, Humans

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• It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

  Rob Thurman

  Moon, Land, Smell

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• And then... as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sleep, Feelings, Firsts

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Waking, Minutes

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

  J. D. Salinger

  Memories, Desire, Mixing

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.

  Kim Harrison

  I Like You, Hard Times, Thinking

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• The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

  Terry Eagleton

  Humanity, Should, Arts And Humanities

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Jubilee, Realizing

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.8, Penguin

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• The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Monday, Tuesday, Shells

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• Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Song, Moving, Unity

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• Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inkheart, Dread, Frightening

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Devil, Sitting, Use

  "The Sandman: Season of Mists". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies.

  David Levithan

  Spices, Hello, Shows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Desert

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.634, NYU Press

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• There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, World

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• And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sky, Secret, May

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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• Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

  Yann Martel

  July, Water, Flying

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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