152 Quotes

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is an intricate structure, elegantly assembled by layers of rules and lawful even at its quirkiest. And in the sense of a listeme, a name is a pure symbol, part of a cast of thousands, rapidly acquired because of a harmony between the mind of the child, the mind of the adult, and the texture of reality.”
― Steven Pinker

“He seemed a very ordinary young man, very much cast down and in a state of humility approaching that of Uriah Heep’s.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors