Top Naming Quotes
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Mary Daly
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard 
61% of people like this quote
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
56% of people like this quote
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel
56% of people like this quote
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi
53% of people like this quote
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
Linus Torvalds
52% of people like this quote
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
Brad Bird
52% of people like this quote
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
Richard V. Allen
51% of people like this quote
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
Barbara Deming
50% of people like this quote
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Philip Gibbs
49% of people like this quote