Renaming Quotes & Sayings

The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said. — Odette Beane

She's taken to renaming him according to her own analysis of his mood of the day, or his mood of the hour, or his mood of the minute: according to her, he's moody. Each mood is personified and given an honorific, so he's Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Sleepy, Dr. Ironic, Sir Sardonic, and sometimes, when she's being sarcastic or possibly nostalgic, Mr. Romantic. — Margaret Atwood

Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too. — Kathy Shaidle

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on. — E.L. Doctorow

Don't tell them he's upstairs , I commanded my brain. Tell them he moved to Pacoima to start a commune for vegetarian vampires. Tell them he's looking into getting a sex-change operation and renaming himself Lulu Pleshette. — Molly Harper

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV. — Kimora Lee Simmons

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it. — Thomas Ian Nicholas

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things. — Mason Cooley

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. — Bill Bryson