Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way others' expectations can be avoided.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you they may not tip you you don't know their names they don't care about you you don't care about them.

Whenever you discuss politics it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I'm an actress and mom and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont W.Va. and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip and I was Little Skip.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.