Names Quotes - Page 9

• Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

  Diane Setterfield

  Needs, Call Me, Absent

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Letters

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Ill Will

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Country, Together, Pieces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan

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• If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Fear, Understanding, May

  Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”

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• Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Real, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Voice, Sheep

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.129, Penguin

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mean, Depth, Needs

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• Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

  Susanna Clarke

  Girl, Looks, Married

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.111, A&C Black

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• That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

  Sarah Vowell

  Hopeful, Political, President

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• Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Heart, Ungrateful, Monsters

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

  Susanna Clarke

  Song, Sleep, Clouds

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Air, Hands

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• For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Different, Entering

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Vision, Forget

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Fine. Let Ranger get someone else. Trust me, you don't want to be out looking for a parking place on Sloane in the middle of the night." I won't have to look for a parking place. Tank's picking me up. Your working with a guy name Tank? He's big. Jesus, Morelli said. I had to fall in love with a woman who works with a guy named Tank. You love me? Of course i love you. I just don't want to marry you.

  Janet Evanovich

  Falling In Love, Jesus, Love You

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.37, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

  David Gemmell

  Graves, Mark, I Can

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• Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Shields, Speak, Melancholy

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

  Roberto Bolano

  Uncles, School, Aunt

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• And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Keys, Louisville

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• I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Witty

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Allies, Masters

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

  Angela Carter

  Losing, Process

  Angela Carter (2011). “Heroes and Villains”, p.243, Penguin UK

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