Classifying Quotes

Lists have always implied social order.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

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

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

People like to pigeonhole you.

Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?