Quotes - Amanda (amandabarden) (San Francisco, CA) Showing 1-23 of 23

#1

“Names have power.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: conjuring, names, power

586 likes

#2

“You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus, names, perception, the-fault-in-our-stars

451 likes

#3

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: labels, names, power-of-words

663 likes

#4

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: identity, labels, names, personality

866 likes

#5

“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: inspirational, names

374 likes

#6

“Every name is real. That's the nature of names.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

tags: names

167 likes

#7

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

tags: names

107 likes

#8

“I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.”
― Jerry Spinelli

tags: names, stargirl

120 likes

#9

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

2847 likes

#10

“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, Summer's Crossing

tags: humor-relationships, love, names, puck

57 likes

#11

“A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.”
― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot

tags: names, people

38 likes

#12

“Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: humour, names

42 likes

#13

“You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

tags: names

39 likes

#14

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: children, glimmer, names, ridiculous

25 likes

#15

“Names are not always what they seem.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: names

23 likes

#16

“If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

tags: funny, humor, names

28 likes

#17

“How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).”
― Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

tags: humbleness, humility, names

25 likes

#18

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

tags: impossible

2666 likes

#19

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

tags: writing

609 likes

#20

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

565 likes

#21

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love