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Quotes about names
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. (Bridges Beau)
You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. (Bridges Beau)
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. (Bridges Beau)
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. (Bridges Beau)
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. (Bridges Beau)
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. (Bridges Beau)
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe. (Bridges Beau)
Once you label me you negate me. (Bridges Beau)
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. (Bridges Beau)
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. (Bridges Beau)
How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this. (Bridges Beau)
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. (Bridges Beau)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. (Bridges Beau)
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. (Bridges Beau)
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. (Bridges Beau)
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service. (Bridges Beau)
Better to see the face than to hear the name. (Bridges Beau)
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. (Bridges Beau)
Not everyone has heard my name I want it to be a house hold name. (Bridges Beau)
Naming names, identifying marketers, corporate interests, major lobbying groups who are trying to go over the heads of parents. (Bridges Beau)
Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing. (Bridges Beau)
I'm not Monte. My name is Chris. (Bridges Beau)
What's your name at least? I can find out where you live if you just give me your name. Jack something I think you said? (Bridges Beau)
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. (Bridges Beau)
Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames. (Bridges Beau)
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