Better to see the face than to hear the name.
Names Quotes
Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp. (Psalms 149:3)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I don’t have a bank account, because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.
Edward Estlin Cummings’ name is often styled “e.e. cummings” in the mistaken belief that the poet legally changed his name to lowercase letters only. Cummings used capital letters only irregularly in his verse and did not object when publishers began lowercasing his name, but he himself capitalized his name in his signature and in the […]
I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names.
“How is it you know my name?” – “Knowing names is my job. My art. To weave the magic of a thing, you see, one must find its true name out.”
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game.
