Top 151 Classify Quotes & Sayings

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.

I classify myself as a comedian, but I'm one of those comedians who also acts so that I can split the difference and feel insecure about both.

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can classify it as aesthetic shock, or even a psychedelic experience. Some people seek to recreate that experience through drugs. But the other way that you can do it is through art, and through spectacle. We have those experiences when we go to rock shows, or when we listen to a piece of classical music, or read a particular poem, or see a painting.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

I don't really classify myself as a scorer. I'm a ballplayer; I'm a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game easy for everybody.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.