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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.
When you see your father playing in the first division, and you see players like Ronaldo with the crowd singing their names, you want that.
I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.
This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.
In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
If I had used real names, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' would have ever seen the light of day because it was a political film, an adaptation of a true incident.
My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.
It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.
I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do.
There's a brand, Mr. Bubble, that is sometimes called other things, like Mickey Mouse or other names. That's the stuff I use.
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
I still see referees officiating based on names on the front and back of jerseys and not based on how the rules are written in the rule book.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.
Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly
I've had two boyfriends in the industry. Like, relationships. But I never say names because I respect my relationships and what we've gone through.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
I always think when you're in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you're in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names - that's what you want.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
So as through a glass and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names - but always me.
Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.
While my season of 'The Bachelorette' was airing, people would call me awful, awful names. They'd question my integrity and character.
Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.
In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.
In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.
I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.
Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
But if I feel comfortable swinging in a short skirt or shorts, if I feel athletic and strong and confident, I can do that, and you shouldn't call me certain names for it.
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.
There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing
