) 'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.'Дon Corleone to Johnny Fontane about Woltz Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.THE GODFATHER (1972) - QUOTES MAIN / A / GF1 / Quotes I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records. Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earthвЂ™s marvels, beneath the dust of habit. PeopleвЂ™s fates are simplified by their names. Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt LeeДЄ nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. How do you think the вЂњdahlingвЂќ thing got started? Zsa Zsa Gabor Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise of all arguments the most unanswerable. It is to be observed that вЂanglingвЂ™ is the name given to fishing by people who canвЂ™t fish. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you canвЂ™t. If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla.

Salman RushdieДЇrom our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. Samuli ParonenДЄ poetвЂ™s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. HomerДo not say, вЂIt is morning,вЂ™ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. How vain, without the merit, is the name. Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. Who would name their kid Jack with the last words вЂoffвЂ™ at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up. Tigers die and leave their skins people die and leave their names. Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. Anthropologists recognize naming as вЂone of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.вЂ™ David S. Names are an important key to what a society values. Actually, вЂhandleвЂ™ is the middle of my first name. The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Bill MaherДЄlways end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Jim Bakker spells his name with two kвЂ™s because three would be too obvious. Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. So those are barriers that you have to overcome. I donвЂ™t want anybody to say, Oh, she canвЂ™t pull this off.

IвЂ™d be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. When I was young, poverty was so common that we didnвЂ™t know it had a name. YouвЂ™re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

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