Quotes About Making Lists

#1. But not all Jews were victims- look at Chairman Rumkowski, who sat safe with his new wife in his cushy home making lists, with the blood of my family on his hands. And not all Germans were murderers. Look at Herr Fassbinder, who had saved so many children on the night that children were taken away.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Lois Lowry

#3. You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Demetri Martin

#4. Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?

Sara Zarr

#5. I love making lists.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#6. I'm obsessed with making lists.

Rachel Nichols

#7. Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

Frederick Lenz

#8. The idea of "Ten Commandments" is a deeply compelling one. It combines two impulses that are ingrained in our nature as human beings: making lists of ten things, and telling other people how to behave.

Sean Carroll

#9. I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

David Byrne

#10. If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.

Renee Lawless

#11. I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Richard Branson

#12. We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Bryan Batt

#13. I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

Ben Stein

#14. Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.

Ted Alexandro

#15. Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

Eileen Myles

#16. Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

Neal A. Maxwell

#17. My home is not a place. It's not a fixed location on the map; not Paris or New York. It is with Ava. Wherever she is - that is where I belong.

Amy Plum

#18. When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

John Otto

#19. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.

David Mamet

#20. I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Robert Rodriguez

#21. Black vintners in this country make some really great wines. Explore a wine list and you will find at least one of our wines in the best restaurants. Buy a bottle for your table, and let management know you appreciate them including a Black winemaker in their stock.

Andre Hueston Mack

#22. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Susan Jeffers

#23. We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

Ann Romney

#24. I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

Sophie Blackall

#25. I'll stay," I said. "As long as I'm wanted.

C.L.Stone

#26. Deadlines comes as a surprise ... superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Alberto Manguel

#27. That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

Tad Williams

#28. Dialogue can help you find out if you've been brainwashed or not.

Oli Anderson

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

Mike Parry