Lewis Carroll Quotes

All names mean something.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

A name means a lot just by itself.

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

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

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

At present our only true names are nicknames.

Names govern the world.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I want my name to mean me.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?