378 Quotes About Labels

They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.

Otaku is a label applied to and adopted by those people who build a culture around anime, manga, videotapes and videogames. Their ideas and values were different from the mainstream, and so they were labeled otaku, or called themselves otaku, to indicate that difference.... In the end, otaku is just a label created to contain difference. --Ono Norihiro

These labels.  Again. They appear from the first day of our birth, and over time their number only increases. There are so many labels in our lives that sometimes we get lost, and don’t understand which of them has become the most significant one. We have stopped just seeing each other as ordinary people. We put these labels wherever and whenever possible. How easy it would be for us if we forgot about their existence even for a minute.

What are you?" "To define is to limit.""Give me a clue." "Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.

Alles wat we waarnemen, beoordelen we als mens. We geven het een label, het krijgt een stempel en we stoppen het in een hokje. Dat doen we omdat die hokjes onze wereld overzichtelijk maken. Hoe stom we het met ons volle bewustzijn ook vinden dat we in hokjes denken, onze hersenen vinden het, onbewust, heerlijk. Door dingen in een hokje te stoppen kunnen we ze sneller begrijpen. Dat schept orde in de chaos die de wereld met zich meebrengt en dat kost minder energie.

Stop being whiny generations of pussies.

I seem to be annoyed not only with Colette, but with the frame of mind I have inherited along with her—the postmodern pride of calling things by their names, the arrogance of assuming integrity is a matter of being more and more open. Or simply that a label, firmly affixed, is honesty in the face of euphemism and discretion.