#name

You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization. ↗

— Garth Stein

#prison #art

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend. ↗

— Andrew X. Pham

#catfish-and-mandala #change #past #vietnam #vietnamese-literature

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#around #best #best way #else #get

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#ideal #names #beauty

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. ↗

— Earl Monroe

#edison #i #invented #many #moves

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#behind #belongs #damn #either #elected

His name was Theo. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#han #loss #magret #name #ragger

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed. ↗

— Matsuri Hino

#kaname #scare #vampire-knight #yuuki #zero

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#stargirl #change