I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.
You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
Call me any name you like I will never deny it.
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.
We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.
I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen. " It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned by making lousy products with very poor production at high prices. So, the government, back in the '70s, nationalized all the British car companies. The result was British Leyland, a name that perhaps doesn't resonate much with you.
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.
