107 Quotes About Categories

There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers.

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

...a name is almost always a sort of cowardice---an attempt to confine a thing to being only what it is, rather than what it may be.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything’ll be okay, the fact that it’s like dogs marking their territory

Before 1802, cirrus, cumulus, and altostratus clouds hadn’t been given names. Untitled before 1802, the shapes were present in the sky, ethereal or ephemeral, presumably since the big bang, but un-designated, until they needed to be. Why then?The world hasn’t been fully seen, until it is named.

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?

In life, the categories we belong to can change very easily and can change so very easily that we in fact belong to every single category! We are hunter, we are victim; we are master, we are slave; we are rich, we are poor; we are lock, we are key! We belong to every category!