Labelled Quotes

#1. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

Tibor Fischer

#2. Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

Carolina Herrera

#3. Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

#4. She was adamant that any organization that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.

Samantha Shannon

#5. And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.

James Herriot

#6. You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.

Mac Miller

#7. Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction,

George Orwell

#8. Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

Warren Buffett

#9. I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

Al Purdy

#10. Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

Wilma Scott Heide

#11. In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.

Amy Richards

#12. We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

Patricia Deegan

#13. HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Idries Shah

#14. Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

Anna Fienberg

#15. She fished in a pocket of her dress and tossed a labelled key to Griff. Think of it as a treasure hunt, with that our only clue. The reward for success is not having a vampire for an aunt.

Andrea K. Host

#16. It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Ornette Coleman

#17. Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

Peter Jackson

#18. Percy hefted a bronze grenade. 'I hope you labelled these right.'
He yelled, 'Die, Romans!' and lobbed the grenade over the wall.

Rick Riordan

#19. The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled.

Mike Marsh

#20. In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.

K. Patricia Cross

#21. There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

Norman Finkelstein

#22. If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#23. I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.

Jeremy Jackson

#24. Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

Jo Brand

#25. A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Simone Weil

#26. We're all different. We all have our own quirks and flaws and dark secrets. All of us are fucked up on some level, whether or not we want to admit it to ourselves. And I like to believe that not every problem or issue that we deal with in our daily lives must be labelled with a fancy title.

J.A. Redmerski

#27. In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Stella Young

#28. I'd been labelled a goth, an emo, a druggie, a loser, and my personal favorite only because it showed just how ignorant people were: a freak.

Nicole Williams

#29. I will not be labelled as average.

Rachel Scott

#30. I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

Paul Weller

#31. Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Edith Wharton

#32. Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women as human...

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#33. Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that's not good.

Maddy Malhotra

#34. Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

Sania Mirza

#35. I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road.

John Cena

#36. Things that are truly innocent don't need to be labelled as such.

Zoe Heller

#37. I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

Meghan Trainor

#38. Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#39. People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

Douglas Hurd

#40. Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'

Robin Morgan

#41. As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

Jamie Redknapp

#42. I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Susan Sarandon

#43. My mother has often been labelled as strange but that's because she says things that people can't possibly believe. Mostly she's right.

Jeanette Winterson

#44. I wanted to scream at those with the probing stares. "Stop calling me a loser! The way I live life is my choice." But I stop short, fearing being labelled a psychopath.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#45. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.

Pfister

#46. Due to their close cooperation with science, these empires wielded so much power and changed the world to such an extent that perhaps they cannot be simply labelled as good or evil. They created the world as we know it, including the ideologies we use in order to judge them.

Yuval Noah Harari

#47. When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

Jon Ronson

#48. We are very slow to recognise in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the model which is labelled "great talent" in our museum of general ideas.

Marcel Proust

#49. Female exposure shouldn't be labelled as 'cheap.'

Lee Joon

#50. If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.

Agatha Christie

#51. There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

T. S. Eliot

#52. Nothing becomes funny by being labelled so.

William Strunk Jr.

#53. Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

Sigmund Freud

#54. If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.

Pim Fortuyn

#55. There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

Flemming Rose

#56. There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.

Michel Faber

#57. Road-rage is really another expression of inner rage. However, because driving is such a trigger for millions of people, we have labelled it "road-rage", directing the emotional dysfunction to an external circumstance rather than coming to terms with the internal condition.

Christopher Dines

#58. So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

Cecelia Ahern

#59. I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Kirsty Gallacher

#60. She was adamant that any organisation that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.' Sorrow

Samantha Shannon

#61. I wouldn't want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there's a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you're an artist and you're a feminist.

Carolee Schneemann

#62. A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

Rashad Evans

#63. I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

Zara Phillips

#64. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Peter Shaffer

#65. Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#66. I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

Issey Miyake

#67. It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.'"
"Yes, but meanwhile -"
"Ah, meanwhile -

Edith Wharton

#68. Professional' does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#69. I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that

Michelle McManus

#70. I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

James Herbert

#71. For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

Giles Duley

#72. I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

Zhang Xin