#name

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#ideal #many #names #them

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. ↗

— Bill Maher

#because #his #jim #jim bakker #name

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#borders #consular #enemy #foreign #gone

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level. ↗

— Karl Malone

#i #just #level #make #myself

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. ↗

— Paul de Man

#displaced #linguistic #name #predicament

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#been #chased #did #entertainment #i

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #also #beautiful #could #dreams

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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