During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her […]
Names Quotes
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
An important art of politcians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
One-way first-name calling always means inequality – witness servants, children, and dogs.
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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.
