#names

So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name? ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#names #funny

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch. ↗

— Robert Morley

#dropped #game #much #names #perpetual

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. ↗

— Plato

#diseases #give #names #strange #very

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#bad #because #between #come #conversation

And hope is but a dream of those that wake. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#hope #inspirational #matthew #namesake #prior

Names. What’s in a name, really? I mean, besides a bunch of letters or sounds strung together to make a word. Does a rose by any other name really smell as sweet? Would the most famous love story in the world be as poignant if it was called Romeo and Gertrude? Why is what we call ourselves so important? ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#love #names #puck #humor

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. ↗

— James Donald

#committed #compared #crimes #emotionally #far

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#love-medicine #names #love

Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king! ↗

— Robin Sloan

#names #love