Catalogues Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. — Hal Borland
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. — Kary Mullis
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time. — Cameron Diaz
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed… — Stephen Jay Gould
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really… — Vivian Campbell
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then,… — James McGreevey
In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys -… — Peter York
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. — Bertrand Russell
My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. — Brooke Shields
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… — Tom Robbins
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked… — Terry Pratchett
Boredom forces you to ring people you havenâ€™t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.… — Jeremy Clarkson
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of… — Thomas P. Campbell
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and… — Jessye Norman
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and… — Lewis Thomas

Who Wrote These Catalogues Quotes

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