Quotes and Sayings About Categories
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Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
-- Allan Kaprow -
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
-- Bryan White -
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
-- Claudia Cardinale -
I don't want to be lumped into any categories.
-- Corey Feldman -
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!
-- David Berg -
To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.
-- David First -
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
-- Derek Webb -
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
-- Emeli Sande -
Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists
-- Ennio Flaiano -
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
-- Ernest Gellner -
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
-- Francis Picabia -
The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.
-- Fuzzy Zoeller -
I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.
-- Gary Reilly -
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
-- James Frey -
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
-- Jane Smiley -
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
-- John Legend -
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
-- Jules Romains -
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
-- Kenneth Fisher -
You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.
-- Kimora Lee Simmons -
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
-- Marianne Moore -
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
-- Marina Abramovic -
The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.
-- Monique Wittig -
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
-- Noel Gallagher -
Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.
-- Reince Priebus -
The good is not a category that interests me.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,
-- Robert Mueller