Catalogue quotes:

Send

When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book. -- Craig Nelson
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
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. -- Winston Churchill
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. -- Courtney Love
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. -- Dennis Farina
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. -- Jonathan Shapiro
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
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things. -- Kelly Wearstler
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
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. -- Thomas Merton
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
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
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. -- Italo Calvino
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
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
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
Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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
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
Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs. -- Hilary Mantel
While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch. -- Rita Rudner
Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen. -- Fred Frith
It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. -- Alfred Einstein
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same. -- Isabella Rossellini
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. -- Anne Tyler
History is only a catalogue of the forgotten. -- Henry Adams
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying -- Rita Rudner
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. -- Anatole France
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance. -- William Levada
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine. -- Patricia Piccinini
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. -- Stefan Kanfer
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. -- Winston Churchill
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. -- Norbert Lynton
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
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. -- Eleanor Catton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. -- John Keats
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
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. -- James Madison
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
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of. -- A. N. Wilson
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
We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we are is simply a finely-curated catalogue of those. -- Maria Popova

Send