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#names

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I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.


Steve Sabol


#fascinated #i #i always #neat #nicknames

I confused things with their names: that is belief.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#confused #i #names #their #things

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#fate #fortune #god #names #nature

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.


John Strachan


#enumerated #head #names #new #new testament

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.


Mary MacLane


#always #am #book #call #even

To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!


Demetri Martin


#humor #names #salesmen #humor

Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed.


Dru Pagliassotti


#flirting #nicknames #teasing #humor

Captain Phelan and I dislike each other,” Beatrix told her. “In fact, we’re sworn enemies.” Christopher glanced at her quickly. “When did we become sworn enemies?” Ignoring him, Beatrix said to her sister, “Regardless, he’s staying for tea.” “Wonderful,” Amelia said equably. “Why are you enemies, dear?” “I met him yesterday while I was out walking,” Beatrix explained. “And he called Medusa a ‘garden pest,’ and faulted me for bringing her to a picnic.” Amelia smiled at Christopher. “Medusa has been called many worse things around here, including ‘diseased pincushion,’ and ‘perambulating cactus.’


Lisa Kleypas


#humor #names #humor

And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.


J.K. Rowling


#nymphadora-tonks #remus-lupin #fool

names are a way to keep people in your mind


Maggie Stiefvater


#deception






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