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His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.


Algernon H. Blackwood


#became #bore #breath #conceived #discovered

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.


James Joyce


#allowed #child #coming #coming of age #father

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.


Brooklyn Decker


#best #best friend #brooke #brooklyn #dad

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.


Mos Def


#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.


Barbara Deming


#acting #balance #believe #dual #fact

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!


Ajay Devgan


#because #charge #distributors #enough #fair

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.


Susan Dey


#cutting #eating #else #end #everything

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.


Robert Blair


#dread #firmness #grave #her #men

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.


Eric Dickerson


#charles #do you know #every #golf #good

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.


Nguyen Cao Ky


#arena #chi #colonialism #fight #french






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