I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.
John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U. S. A. you are referring to categories again.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast with the rise of transgender rights that are questioning what all these categories are.
If you could lead through testing, the U. S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful. "
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.
I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.