Labels Quotes

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inco...

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

People don't want other people to be people.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my na...

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in position...

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is...

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage...

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...

The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservat...

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead inst...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged con...

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ign...

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic cont...

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gast...

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative...