Joanne Harris Quotes

A named thing is a tamed thing.

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra.

Names govern the world.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

To know is to control.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

We must tame these fellows and make them useful to us.

Genres are just names.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

We see only what we have names for.

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.