My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me! — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt… — Wilfrid Sellars Copy Share Image
I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories -… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now,… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary Copy Share Image
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image