Simon/names

Famous quotes containing the words simon and/or names:

“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1941)

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words.... The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)