Categories Quotes

• A top World II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

  

  Nathan Farragut Twining
  • War
  • Categories
  • Pilots

• It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

  

  David First
  • People
  • Trying
  • Exceptional

• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Games

• The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • English
  • Politics
  • Foundations

• Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Species
  • Categories

• Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drama

• I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.

  

  Leven Rambin
  • Darkness
  • Experiments
  • Pregnant

• The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Style
  • Possibility
  • Seems

• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  

  Rene Cassin
  • Certain
  • Protection
  • League

• The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Racial

• I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Looks
  • Lucky
  • Havens

• I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Politician
  • Philosopher
  • Ministers

• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Humans
  • Criminal
  • Not-yet-criminal

• Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Dumb
  • Compromise

• Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

  

  Karsten Harries
  • Painting
  • Successful
  • Masterpiece

• Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Existence
  • Price
  • Seek

• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Knows
  • Volunteer

• The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Nature
  • Artist
  • Paragraph

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