Categories Quotes · Page 4

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

— Frank Herbert

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

— Corey Feldman

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

— Ernest Gellner

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

— Kurt Elling

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

— Jim Wallis

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

— W. Eugene Smith

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”

— Steven Magee

Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

— Robert Gottlieb

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

— African Spir

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the…

— Thomas Boswell

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

— Noel Gallagher

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied…

— Sigmund Freud

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

— Lana Del Rey

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

— Caio Fonseca

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put…

— Judd Apatow

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the…

— Richard Rodriguez

Because Bobby and I are both under the category of idols, I think it became a larger controversy. I hope that many…

— Kim Nam-joon

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can…

— Rob Bell

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers…

— Clayton Christensen

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I…

— Trick Daddy

Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic…

— Francis Maude

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism…

— Michael Pollan

The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper…

— Warren Buffett

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…

— Michel Foucault

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications…

— Eric Hoffer

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting…

— Joe Queenan

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and…

— Gerald Edelman

If prosperity means God wants us to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships then yes, I'm a prosperity teacher. But…

— Joel Osteen

I think that ties into our name and the meaning behind our name, going Against the Current. We don't really want to…

— Chrissy Costanza

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

— Robert Smithson

There are so many categories you can pick whatever you like to show who's best.

— Trea Turner

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

— Francis Picabia

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

— David Brooks

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me…

— Hayden Panettiere

Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc.

— Charles Pelly

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of…

— Cornel West

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

— Debra Wilson