A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in which I'm trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction.
The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.
The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.
We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.
The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.
Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.
Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of. . . winning the U. S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics. . . It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'
Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and. . . obsequious.
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.