“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
— J.K. Rowling“Did someone just call me the ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”
— Rick Riordan“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”
— Alberto Caeiro“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
— Confucius“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
— Alan Watts“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
— Michael Bassey JohnsonWe give names – Autumn and summer, winter, spring – as though to unfasten from the mind our moods and give them outward forms.
— Elizabeth Jennings