How To Categorise Quotes & Sayings

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger. — Anne Roiphe

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan

The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote.
Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical. — Edmund De Waal

Like all of my previous work - which I also hope is a bit hard to categorise - 'The Oopsatoreum' is an illustrated book, so a combination of words and pictures that tell a kind of story. — Shaun Tan

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die. — Bernie Siegel

We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love for them, which, before allowing the images that their faces present to reach us, seizes them in its vortex and flings them back upon the idea that we have always had of them, makes them adhere to it, coincide with it. How, since into the forehead and the cheeks of my grandmother I had been accustomed to read all the most delicate, the most permanent qualities of her mind, how, since every habitual glance is an act of necromancy, each face that we love a mirror of the past, how could I have failed to overlook what had become dulled and changed in her, seeing that in the most trivial spectacles of our daily life, our eyes, charged with thought, neglect, as would a classical tragedy, every image that does not contribute to the action of the play and retain only those that may help to make its purpose intelligible. — Marcel Proust

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry. — Paul Walker

Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one's being as laughing easily or having red hair. — Olivia Laing

A short story is ... frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V.S. Pritchett

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon — James Scott Bell

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems. — Jeff Henderson

The human compulsion to group people and objects together was ingrained in our being since we evolved. We need to group things, group the dangerous and unknown from the 'safe to eat' or the 'it won't eat you' categories. Without the ability to categorise these threats, our ancestors wouldn't have survived. — Charlie Caruso

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life. — Patti Smith

Then I'm telling it wrong." "Bad?" "Yes. Divorce shouldn't be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing, — Jonathan Tropper

Reaching beyond where you are is really important. — Martin Seligman

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. — Catherynne M Valente