Jenny Holzer Quotes

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

My name is more important than myself.

All names mean something.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

Young man, make your name worth something.

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

My name's Jet Steele.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Every single line means something.

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

Without literature, life is hell.