Denominating Quotes

#1. To what a degree this loose mode of classing and denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit for the purposes of accurate thinking, is best known to whoever has most meditated on the present condition of those branches of knowledge.

John Stuart Mill

#2. Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other people and genuine human interaction. And yes, I think that's bad.

Jason Merkoski

#3. I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

Agathe Snow

#4. All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.

Deborah Harkness

#5. I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

Justin Townes Earle

#6. I saw how he looked at you when he came in here Monday. He'd let you carry his balls around in your pocket.

Christina Lauren

#7. Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. For the love of God! He howled. Could all of the straight people get out of the fucking closets, please? Gay men coming through!

Kat French

#9. People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

Jerry Della Femina

#10. Even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.

Jean-Claude Carriere

#11. I'd been hurt, yes - but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself.

David Levithan

#12. We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and the strong. We are all here for a mere moment.

Jana Kotaishova

#13. I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#14. If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

Karl Lagerfeld

#15. Dreams? What's the point of that?

Erin Hunter

#16. My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

Mallory Jansen