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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• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  Randy Schekman

  Three, Cards, Five

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• Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying

  Rita Rudner

  Summer, Lying, Men

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• Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

  Ann Patchett

  Sleep, Differences, Together

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.161, A&C Black

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• The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Opera, Stuff, Soap

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• Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

  Greg Egan

  Islands, Self, Inventory

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• There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology - on the way water moves around the planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Moving, Water, Looks

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

  Gary Zukav

  Meditation, Lectures, Physics

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• I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Want

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Magazines, Tests, Drawers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Art, Real, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• Husband and I are preparing ourselves for the new Doctor by watching - well, mainly rewatching - Mr. Capaldi’s back catalogue, we’ve just finished The Crow Road in which he is utterly drop-dead gorgeous and actually I’d better stop there as husband is probably reading this so just let me point out that of course I’m only excited about upcoming Doctor Who because of the stories and it’s definitely not because I fancy the new Doctor.

  Jacqueline Rayner

  Husband, Reading, Doctors

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• I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

  Jenny Hval

  Art, Reading, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

  Rumer Godden

  Liars, Garden, House

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Easy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.6, Anatole France

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wall, Writing, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

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