Quotes About Being Labelled

#1. 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

#2. Nothing becomes funny by being labelled so.

William Strunk Jr.

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Stephen Hawking

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

Al Purdy

#8. 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

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

Kirsty Gallacher

#10. 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

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

Susan Sarandon

#12. 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

#13. Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#14. Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Mason Cooley

#15. 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

#16. Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

Abbi Glines

#17. If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

Meir Soloveichik

#18. Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously ... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

Hunter S. Thompson

#19. With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

John Stuart Mill

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Was Levi Myers real? Did he really exist? Or did my sad, black heart create him because it longed for a little bit of color?

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.

David Lagercrantz

#25. It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo

#26. Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.

Claudia Gray

#27. I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Jimmy Carl Black

#28. Our moral and practical attitude ... impulses, inhibitions ... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar ... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]

William James

#29. Peace begins with a kind gesture and Namaste.

Debasish Mridha

#30. We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Waylon Jennings