Labels Quotes · Page 26

Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,…

— Chinua Achebe

The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when…

— Kay Coles James

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest:…

— George Carlin

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

— Gary Wright

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record…

— Branford Marsalis

I really wanted to get myself to the AIR Awards to start conversations with managers and labels, because I knew they were…

— G Flip

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

— David Levithan

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

— Warren Buffett

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

— George Meany

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that…

— Zoe Saldana

If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder…

— Paul Dalio

I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I…

— Mike Stud

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by…

— Howard Schultz

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the…

— Barbara Hulanicki

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of…

— Jimmy Heath

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you…

— Lynda Barry

I don't think labels are as important as results.

— Hillary Clinton

I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have…

— MC Lyte

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

— Moby

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting…

— Amanda Palmer

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

— Jamie Redknapp

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And…

— Van Morrison