More quotations tagged with “names”
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
—Plato
When composer Igor Stravinsky was fifty-seven, he settled in the United States and a year later decided to apply for American citizenship. He made an appointment to see the appropriate official. At his first interview the official asked the famous composer his name. "Stra-vin-sky," he replied, speaking each syllable distinctly. "You could change it, you know," suggested the official.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
—Lily Tomlin