Top 100 Quotes About Lists
#1. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
Eric Maisel
#2. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list
Mike Parry
#3. I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.
Paul Van Dyk
#4. We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn't that the most amazing thing we can do?
Walt Whitman
#5. Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
Bill Hader
#6. Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
Clive Sinclair
#7. I go through about half a dozen spiral notebooks a year. They are my friends, just like the to-do lists. They keep me organized.
David R. Wommack
#8. A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
Ivan Turgenev
#9. I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
Justin Trudeau
#10. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
Norman Vincent Peale
#11. I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
Ashley Rickards
#12. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
#13. It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.
Andy Roddick
#14. Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
David Ives
#15. So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
Bernard Cornwell
#16. Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.
Tim Ferriss
#17. Grocery lists I lost; my shit list was forever.
Rob Thurman
#18. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
Jack Chick
#19. Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.
Cassandra Clare
#20. The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Douglas Rushkoff
#22. I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Patricia Heaton
#23. When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
Fran Lebowitz
#24. Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Shirley Chisholm
#25. I'd like to meet a nice girl and leave all those 'hottest bachelor' lists behind.
Jesse Metcalfe
#26. I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.
Joe Mansueto
#27. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.
Rebecca Solnit
#28. Honestlythese two were not on the recommended list.
Park Shin-yang
#29. My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
Alison Sweeney
#30. Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
E.L. Konigsburg
#31. Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
Anderson Cooper
#32. Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.
Jeffrey Veen
#33. A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.
Bill Maher
#34. You're probably also wondering how in the hell I can possibly be twenty-five years old when just yesterday I was four. I know, it's a tough pill to swallow. I'm not a foul-mouthed, cute little kid anymore. I'm now a foul-mouthed, cute adult.
Tara Sivec
#35. Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
Lois Lowry
#36. If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.
Merlin Mann
#37. Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
Cynthia Nixon
#38. There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
Marian Wright Edelman
#39. Oz lists the hem of his shirt, exposing his cut abs, and wipes his brow with the material. Oh my with chocolate on top. That was just beautiful.
Katie McGarry
#40. Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Tony Horton
#41. I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.
Chris Solinsky
#42. So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.
Ras Kass
#43. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
Cary Grant
#44. Uncle Drew is completely inappropriate and one hundred percent of the time, and Aunt Jenny is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Tara Sivec Love And Lists
#46. Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
Nick Harkaway
#47. I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.
Kacey Musgraves
#48. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#49. For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. There's no way the person who made these lists actually has kids. They should be shot. And at this moment, I would defend the person who shoots them, pro bono. Just saying.
Emma Chase
#51. Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.
Pete Gill
#52. You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
Wallace D. Wattles
#53. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
Marilynne Robinson
#54. The depth of talent in Israel is just spectacular. I was very excited by it because when you cast in LA, you tend to see a lot of the same faces on lists for various parts.
Tim Kring
#55. Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
David Allen
#56. If Richard trusted anyone with his life, it would have been Kendrick of Artane. But trust Kendrick with his woman? Not a chance in hell. He strode across the lists, intent on intercepting Artane's lad before he spotted Jessica.
Lynn Kurland
#57. My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.
Freddie Lindstrom
#58. I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.
John Darnielle
#59. It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis - that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were - that made this list.
Glenn Beck
#60. Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?
Bill Maher
#61. My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
Ashwin Sanghi
#62. Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#63. Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
Anna Quindlen
#64. We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.
Evan Spiegel
#66. Having to think before actually starting is an open door to procrastination. You need lists of actions, not lists of hopes and wishes.
Kevin T. Edwards
#67. People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
David Viscott
#68. When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
Terri Windling
#69. Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#70. I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about ... those are always the wrong choices.
Michelle Williams
#71. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
Roger Ebert
#72. Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
Maureen Chiquet
#73. The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological - as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The
Charles C. Mann
#74. God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else are percentages of peace.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.
Po Bronson
#76. The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.
Jerzy Kosinski
#77. We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
Viggo Mortensen
#79. If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.
Phil Keoghan
#80. When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.
Georges St-Pierre
#81. The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.
Edward Snowden
#82. Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there's no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.
Liza Richardson
#83. The Monmouth-Ocean area is ... always in the best-areas-to-live lists.
Brian Boyle
#84. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
Alexander Pope
#85. The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
Leon Trotsky
#86. Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
LZ Granderson
#87. She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do.
And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?
Geoff Ryman
#88. Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics ...
Steve Roper
#89. 'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
Jay Parini
#91. Normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.
Dave Barry
#92. I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
Ethan Zuckerman
#93. I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.
Lemar
#94. For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
Henry Rollins
#95. Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#96. Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists.
Pooja Ruprell
#97. To really love Joan Didion - to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase - you have to be female.
Caitlin Flanagan
#98. I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.
Harold Ford Jr.
#99. To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.
Eric Stoltz
#100. The backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.
Susan Faludi
