Categories Quotes

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

— Murray Horwitz

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

— Timothy Gowers

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

— Al Ries

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

— Jules Romains

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

— Charlotte Whitton

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

— Fuzzy Zoeller

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

— Mason Cooley

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

— Timothy Keller

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything…

— Wayne Thiebaud

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

— Kenneth Williams

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories…

— David Bianculli

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call…

— Travis Tritt

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also…

— Saunders Mac Lane

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

— Russell Baker

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human…

— Zadie Smith

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to…

— Anonymous

AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than…

— Stuart J. Russell

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very…

— Louis C. K

The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths,…

— Judith M Bardwick

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…

— Northrop Frye

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've…

— Jack Nicholson

With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh…

— Neil Gaiman

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty…

— Cassandra Clare

It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every…

— James Berardinelli

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of…

— A. P. Herbert

As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I…

— Clark Gregg

It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets…

— Judith Butler

I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about…

— Taylor Swift

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its…

— Anonymous

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't…

— Woody Allen

“...the following parable may be useful. Long ago, when shepherds wanted to see if two herds of sheep were isomorphic, they would…

— John C. Baez

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

— Rufus Wainwright

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

— Steve McQueen

When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category.

— Josh Hutcherson

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

— Duke Ellington

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

— David Byrne

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

— Gretchen Rubin