Classificatory Quotes

#1. The two basic problems for any overarching classification scheme in it rapidly changing and complex field call be described as follows. First, any classificatory decision made now might by its nature block off valuable future developments.

Geoffrey C. Bowker

#2. In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

Jacques Derrida

#3. From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

John Ortberg

#4. It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Grace Slick

#6. Today is my grandfather's birthday."
"How old is he?"
"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

Charles M. Schulz

#7. One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

Isaac Mizrahi

#9. I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

Robert Bolt

#10. A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion.

Kami Garcia

#11. Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty ... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

Graeme Base

#13. Unlike a bag of heroin, a girl can be sold again and again.

Peggy Kern

#14. Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#15. I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

Tracey Emin