#names

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

Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#names #scarlet #throne #beauty

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. ↗

— Charles MacArthur

#each #fine #give #greed #hide

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it. ↗

— Alvin Martin

#five #had #kevin #names #paper

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#beat #called #circle #fell #fit

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#among #apparently #been #decision #exist

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

— Robert Morley

#dropped #game #much #names #perpetual

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. ↗

— Larry Niven

#me #names #new #problem #right