Naming Quotes

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard

Away, Takes, Seeing

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel

Great, Fear, Grateful

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Jay London

After, Pride, Cause

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
Beth Ditto

Her, Child, Singer

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Linus Torvalds

Important, Nothing, Wrong

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
Thom Yorke

Funny, Music, Political

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
Tom Waits

Woman, Sight, Island

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan

Successful, Important, Duty

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Chris Ware

Age, Language, Ability

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Work, Sense, Makes

I like naming characters.
Roddy Doyle

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi

Work, Writing, Off

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
Paul Hawken

Age, Technology, Next

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
Janet Evanovich

Thought, Year, Actually

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
Tom Shadyac

Someone, Career, Jesus

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
Richard Eyre

Poetry, Moment, Creative

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.
Richard V. Allen

Team, Year, Almost

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
Richard V. Allen

Team, Year, Name

Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.
Andy Richter

Whole, York, Celebrity

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
Brad Bird

Movies, Real, Less

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
Barbara Deming

Choice, Vision, Behavior

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
Noah Wyle

Thinking, Son, Daughter

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
Lisa Snowdon

Music, Business, Him

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Philip Gibbs

Done, Fighting, Individual

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Arthur Capper

Made, Free, Choice

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
Alva Noto

Work, Between, Question

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
Edward Dmytryk

Party, Worse, Communist

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
Charlie Bell

Problem, Leader, Guy

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Mary Daly

Women, Power, Stolen

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
Ariel Winter

Dad, Mother, Big

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