Cataloguing Quotes

#1. There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.

Mary Lou Kirwin

#2. I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

John Daido Loori

#4. She disinterred the wickedness in normality, cataloguing the ways conformity and repression tip into psychosis, persecution, and paranoia, into cruelty and its masochistic, injury-cherishing twin. Like

Shirley Jackson

#5. I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

Girl Talk

#6. The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.

Alberto Manguel

#7. Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such "ordainers of the universe" (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries.

Alberto Manguel

#8. Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.

Ian Sansom

#9. An endless task, the cataloguing of reality. We accumulate facts, we discuss them, but with every line that is written, with every statement that is made, one has the feeling of incompleteness.

Frantz Fanon

#10. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#11. It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#12. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Michael Bloomberg

#13. Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.

John Newton

#14. In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

Honore De Balzac

#15. The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

Doug Stanhope