Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.
So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.
He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location. " Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location. " This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.
People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.
In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be time, But you must not speak its name. Tell me a story of deep delight.
I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.
I wield my spear in the name of justice!
I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.
The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman. ' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all. . I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind. . . I can do anything. It's difficult.
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I'm rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you're name is. If you don't, you're nameless.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.