What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know...
If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The s...
Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name.
Is everyone with one face called a Milo?Oh no, Milo replied; some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.How terribly confusing, he cried. Everything here is called exact...
She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.First of all, there...
If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.
What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were...
Names have power.
Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably marrie...
With Cats, some say, one rule is true:Don’t speak till you are spoken to.Myself, I do not hold with that —I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.But always keep in mind that heResents familiarity.I bow, and...
I suppose it's the name: there's a deal in the name of a tune.
He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were s...
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh? Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus. Josiah Worthington said, He looks more like m...
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and...
Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
Captain Phelan and I dislike each other, Beatrix told her. In fact, we’re sworn enemies.Christopher glanced at her quickly. When did we become sworn enemies?Ignoring him, Beatrix said to her sister, R...