#names

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#fallen #fat #get #i #love

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! ↗

— Martin Bormann

#after #aware #books #buildings #clearly

He said true things, but called them by wrong names. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#names #said #them #things #true

People's fates are simplified by their names. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#names #people #simplified #their

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay. ↗

— David Mitchell

#names #sex #age

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#communist party #defending #me #names #naming

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

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find. ↗

— Norman Granz

#biggest #concerts #could #doing #find

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff. ↗

— Richard D. James

#i #make #make up #names #stuff

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#finish #frightened #gay #going #homosexual