Catalogues Quotes - Page 2

• Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weakness, Admiration

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.82

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• I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

  Louis Aragon

  Important, Vitality, Rebel

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• When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Running, Believe, Angel

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

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• I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

  George Eliot

  Spring, Eye, Would Be

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.71

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• Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Real, Order

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Little Sister: A Novel”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Jobs, Ungrateful, World

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

  Thomas Hood

  Eye, Drawing, Done

  Thomas Hood (1862). “the works of thomas hood”, p.361

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• I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

  Sophie Thompson

  Kings, Reading, Son

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• In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

  Peter York

  Two, Vision, Different

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• No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Brother, War, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ebay, Order, Pouring

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• I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Writing, Trying, Depth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

  Rosalind Russell

  Taste, Becoming, Wonderful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

  Richard Serra

  Action, Walking

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• When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

  Jensen Ackles

  School, Pajamas, Middle

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• You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

  Greg Graffin

  Girl, Cds, Retail

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• I never thought I was cut out for a life of crime. I even felt guilty when I accidentally stole a Subbuteo catalogue, thinking it was free. But everyone has an inner rebel, and mine has finally found a natural outlet. My crime of choice is that, with a heart as cold as ice and no care for what society thinks, I steal wireless computer network time.

  Julian Baggini

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

  "The wireless disconnect" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2007.

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• 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

  Queens, School, Names

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• When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Different, Bob

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• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Roots, Mutiny

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• My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

  Brooke Shields

  Fun, Years, Filled

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• Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Unity, Invention

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• The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

  Heidi Klum

  Sports, Exercise, Years

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• 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

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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