Top 100 Quotes About Classify
#1. South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.
Hortense Powdermaker
#3. It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
Arlene Francis
#4. To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples ...
John B. Conway
#5. There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
#6. Have you ever noticed that people look like either rodents or birds? And you can classify them that way, like, I definitely have more of a rodent face, but you look like a penguin.
Jesse Andrews
#7. When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.
Megan Kearney
#8. All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
Pedro Almodovar
#9. It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
Tariq Ali
#10. It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.
Malcolm X
#11. I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.
Janet Evanovich
#12. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Tom Stoppard
#13. The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.
Conan O'Brien
#14. It seems the trees can count! They wait until a certain number of warm days have passed, and only then do they trust that all is well and classify the warm phase as spring. But warm days alone do not mean spring has arrived.
Peter Wohlleben
#15. I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time.
Helen Sharman
#16. Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.
Frederick Lenz
#17. It's a coffee place. You can't just automatically classify anything that isn't a steak house as vegetarian.
Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert heir own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient fast as mere opinions.
Kevin Hearne
#18. When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#19. You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
Jesse Ventura
#20. All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock ... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
Jay-Z
#21. Lord, did he have the best smile. It was in turns sweet, seductive, and downright sexy. How could a man look so good without even seeming to try? Laith was charming, enticing, handsome, and fascinating.
If she had to classify him, it would be sex-on-a-stick.
Donna Grant
#22. I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
Martin Fleischmann
#23. There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.
Ross Kemp
#24. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.
Helen Keller
#25. Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food
to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?
Anne Tyler
#26. People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.
David Salle
#27. Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism ... It is the Fashion to be a wit ... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
James Branch Cabell
#28. I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Sherman Alexie
#29. I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.
Ann Leckie
#30. I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
Natalie Portman
#31. Slightly surreal, so private, so obscure
That critics classify his work as 'pure'
Because, in digging through the endless chatter
They can't discern what is the subject matter...
R.S. Gwynn
#32. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes
#33. I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.
Pearl Tan
#34. I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.
Johnny Weir
#35. We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
Mike Gordon
#36. think if more people understood the reality, they'd be less inclined to classify the lifestyle as abusive, or demeaning. Those
Jason Luke
#37. The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.
Carolina Maria De Jesus
#39. We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
Anonymous
#40. The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.
Kendrick Lamar
#41. My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
#42. 12Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
Anonymous
#43. Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Michel Foucault
#44. Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#45. We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.
Randolph Bourne
#46. Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
Bobby Jindal
#47. It is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait
a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.
Hope Mirrlees
#48. Supernaturals is a broad term used to classify beings that include Elementals and numerous other creatures. Like what? The list is endless. Witches, Demons, Spirits, stuff like that. Wow, I commented dryly. It's like a giant Halloween party isn't it?
Alessia Dickson
#49. I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
Uma Thurman
#50. You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.
Lawrence O'Donnell
#52. There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
Hugh Lofting
#53. I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
Bob Dylan
#54. I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.
Meredith Brooks
#55. Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Larry Wall
#56. An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.
Paul Cezanne
#57. I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
John Frankenheimer
#58. I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
Fred Tomaselli
#59. Religion can't separate us, politics can't divide us, wealth can't classify us. We're all one! We're children of LOVE!
Abhishek Kumar
#60. I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
Benedict Wong
#61. Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits ... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
Pablo Picasso
#62. Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.
Katherine Boo
#63. Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?
Hayley Williams
#64. The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
Margaret Fuller
#65. To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".
Peter Kreeft
#66. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
#67. Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Carl Jung
#68. All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.
Billy Unger
#70. Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
Willa Cather
#71. I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
Rob Zombie
#72. We classify things as easy or difficult, but this is not right, tasks should be classified as possible or impossible and the possible ones can be easy or hard
Hatem A. Aly
#73. I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Jim Webb
#74. In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions.
Jean-Michel Guenassia
#75. Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
#76. If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
Eugene H. Peterson
#77. They classify my motivational speeches as rants!
Kanye West
#78. The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.
Stieg Larsson
#79. We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
Rick Perlstein
#80. Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.
Bill Bryson
#81. Valek had learned the best way to distribute information was to classify it as secret.
Maria V. Snyder
#82. I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo Coelho
#83. If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.
Amelia B. Edwards
#85. It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.
Criss Jami
#86. Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
Patricia Marx
#87. I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.
Brendon Urie
#88. Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.
Criss Jami
#90. When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
Preston Manning
#91. In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Even now it is ceasing to be art of the nobleman, and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that, along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
Yanni
#94. One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
#95. The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#96. 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.
Jon Landau
#97. I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.
Catherine Brady
#98. Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#100. Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.
David M. Knight
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