“ She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to t… Emily St. John Mandel
“ I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. L.M. Montgomery
“ 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… Neil Gaiman
“ 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… Cormac McCarthy
“ If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard. Simone Elkeles
“ 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… Ernest Hemingway
“ 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… T.S. Eliot
“ 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. Dodie Smith
“ 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… Norton Juster
“ What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare
“ You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called… Christopher Paolini
“ 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… David Mitchell
“ 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… Geraldine Brooks
“ A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Des… Ruth Ozeki
“ 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… T.S. Eliot
“ 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… Ray Bradbury
