Categories Quotes · Page 2

The good is not a category that interests me.

— Rem Koolhaas

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

— Whitney Chadwick

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

— Noam Chomsky

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

— Roger Ebert

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

— Roy Haylock

We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...

— Roman Abramovich

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.

— Scott Raab

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

— Seth Godin

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush…

— Ron Suskind

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than…

— Mati Klarwein

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

— Rita Mae Brown

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

— Jane Smiley

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

— Madeleine Albright

It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to…

— Ricky Gervais

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

— Alberto Manguel

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was…

— Bill Orcutt

I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in…

— Jennifer Nettles

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist,…

— Tony Kushner

Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in…

— Elliott Sober

The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond…

— David Richo

Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth.…

— Sung Won Sohn

In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the…

— Eric Foner

The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each…

— Jose Saramago

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so…

— Jonathan Carroll

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will…

— Rajneesh

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God…

— Martin Buber

What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"…

— J. L. Austin

If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity…

— Judith Butler

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest…

— Murray Rothbard

Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists

— Ennio Flaiano

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

— Michael Keaton

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

— Sun Ra

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

— Monique Wittig

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

My view is that we will still have many different categories of cars in the future.

— Henrik Fisker

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

— Bruce Dickinson

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

— Marianne Moore