Naming Of Things Quotes

“I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“Naming something beautiful made it so. I'd seen this in the way the church spoke of marriage as a sacred institution and in the one man plus one woman bumper stickers people sported on their vehicles. The same ones my father would hand to any customer passing through his dealership service department.

Naming something ugly had a similar effect. The sound of my mother's vomiting the night she drove me home had taught me this lesson better than anything else ever had. I was gay, had been named as such, a fact that once ingested had to be immediately expelled.”
― Garrard Conley, Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

“You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?”
― Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

“If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.”
― Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

“I saw the angels lifted like pale straws;
I could not stand before those winnowing eyes.
And fell, until I found the world again.
Now I lack grace to tell what I have seen;
For though the head frames words the tongue has none.
And who will prove the surgeon to this stone?”
― Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

“For it is God’s business to create, and people’s business to name.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times