Catalogues Quotes

• When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

  Ambrose Bierce

  May, Faults, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2690, Delphi Classics

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• As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Fall, Writing, Winter

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• A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

  Norbert Lynton

  Beautiful, Artist, Milestone

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• History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

  Henry Adams

  History, Forgotten

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.37, Penguin

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• A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, World, Should

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153, 1991.

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• The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Jobs, Views

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  History, Events, Convincing

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• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Romantic, Husband, Nice

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  Kary Mullis

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage

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• 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 about what my songs mean.

  Denison Witmer

  Song, Nice, Mean

  Source: sojo.net

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• In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.

  Warren MacKenzie

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the year after that and so forth. We did make many pots which were repeated, but we allowed them to change and to grow as we changed and grew, and I think that was the big difference. And that's all right; we were working for ourselves. We didn't have anybody we had to pay.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Years, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Cutting, Years, Together

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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• [My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Ideas, Pot, Seeing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

  Walter de La Mare

  Motivational, Silence, Mind

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• When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

  C. S. Forester

  Book, Reading, Space

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• Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Heart, Get Better, Myopia

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Cash

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• 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

  Cancer, Race, Issues

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• Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

  Ivan Illich

  Kindness, Skills, People

  Ivan Illich (1972). “Institutional inversion”

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• There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.

  James R Newman

  Art, Stars, Expression

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2012, Рипол Классик

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• We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Creating, People

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

  William Congreve

  Revenge, Hate, One Day

  1700 The Way of the World, act 1, sc.3.

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• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Pride, Thinking

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