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Letter "F" » first names
«My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.»
Author: Holly Marie Combs
(Actress)
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«Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.»
Author: John Mason Brown
(Critic)
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braggart, braggarts, cringe, first names, naming, out of print
«In Alzheimer's [disease] the mind dies first: Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.»
Author: Matt Clark
| About:
Disease
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Alzheimer, dates, fade, First Date, first names, Interior, mists, mist over, names, scrapbook, The Mist
«When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'»
«We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.»
Author: Serj Tankian
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communism, domination, drugged, drugging, drugs, excuses, first names, fought, global, heathens, name, terrorism, The Domination, The name
«First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.»
Author: Steve Martin
(Actor, Comedian, Musician, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Disease
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«Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Dreams
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«When I eventually met Mr Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.»
«Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you alone, yourself and nameless? But you are young and I am old. Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth»
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