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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• Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Confusion, Quality

  Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.131, Henry Holt and Company

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• I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.

  Stephen King

  Hero, Writing, Eye

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• I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

  Harry Crews

  Beautiful, Hurt, Eye

  Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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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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• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

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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'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Competition, Bob

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Unity, Invention

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

  Eleanor Catton

  Love, Together, Reason Why

  Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.563, Granta Books

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