Catalogues – Quotes

Love cannot be reduced

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. Eleanor Catton

I once had a

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s a whole catalogue

There’s a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. Dennis Farina

You don’t always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It’s really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It’s one of the reasons I try not to get too specific … Read more

What I learned about

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but … Read more

Race relations can be

Race relations can be an appropriate issue… but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure. David Dinkins

I’m a catalogue artist:

I’m a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. Courtney Love

By the time I

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn’t go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school. Christopher Walken

The word necessary is

The word necessary is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of … Read more

This fine young man

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices – open-handedness – to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, … Read more