Top 295 Category Quotes

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn’t have a safe category.

I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

I was never considered ‘a marketable hero’, and never got promoted to that category. I am not complaining – I found another niche – comedy – which is equally enjoyable and brought me as much comfort as I need.

I don’t fall into the category of tortured artist. But it’s not made me more or less anything.

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you’re still going to get through the day. But it doesn’t make you a happy person if you weren’t a happy person before.

In entrepreneurial circles, it’s clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination – or whatever you want to label it – is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don’t want it to.

Sometimes it’s said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Unfortunately, making what is essentially a laser sword falls into the deadly category.

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux – I just don’t see myself in that category. I’m flattered that maybe it’s debatable at this point.

Once they put you in like a label category it just haunts you.

People look at you, and they’ve got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we’d been led to believe didn’t exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 – and everyone is unusual in one way or another – you were an isolated anomaly. Now you’re a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

There’s a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It’s one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you’re in the dubstep category, it’s like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA – I’m five foot three, I’m not a model, and I never wanted to be one.

It’s great, just to even get mentioned in the category with the type of person like Dwyane Wade, one of the best NBA players in the league today. It’s great, and that makes me work even that much harder to be better than him.

Most comics point out what everyone else is thinking but hadn’t thought of verbalizing. I guess, in a way, that makes most comics seers. It just depends in what category – some choose to be the seers of relationships, some are seers of racial issues, and some are seers of political issues.

I like having my autonomy; I like going into the vegetable aisle with little fanfare. Very few go into that star category, in that uber above-the-title category. The rest of us, day in and day out, we’re there to support what they do.

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that’s why I have not been put in a category.

EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.

In any awards ceremony, if you’re a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things – not sidelined, marginalized.

I don’t put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

A ban on a class of arms is not an ‘incidental’ regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

We believe ultimately that human co-experience – doing things together as a social platform for play – is a new category. It’s differentiated from toys or games or social networking in that it’s people doing things together in real time.

People thrive on genuine connections – not with machines, but with each other. You don’t want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are – and will continue to be – best at.

It’s such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that’s what they did in the ’50s. You fought the system, but you didn’t win.

The day I stopped drinking milk’ is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is ‘normal’ for us falls under the category of ‘expensive’ or ‘unaffordable’ for middle or poor class.

You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don’t ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it’s on the stage, or it’s a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

I’ve always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn’t pin you down too much, like other labels would. It’s just newer, it has less baggage. I’m happy to be in that category.

I think when we use ‘stress’, we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.

My first Grammy wasn’t even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. ‘Rockit’ was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

There’s less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

From our music in general, we’ve always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

My husband has said even he doesn’t know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that’s a good one.

For me, becoming a father at 50-plus was another challenge, but then, I am neither the first one, nor the last in this category.

If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you’d probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody’s definition of carnage and evil is different.

There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people – and I put myself in this category – don’t fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

I’ve said the Grammys messed up metal because it’s not on TV. What I’m saying is when you’re in a metal category, it’s not televised, and it doesn’t move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.

The construction toy category is one category that has a lot of room to grow online.

Many of my works fall into the category of ‘Zeitgeist novels’. Yet I hope that they aren’t only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

A lot of artists go in the studio and say, ‘OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I’ll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I’ll do it.’ So they start makin’ these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it’ll just all sound the same.