#labels

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#ate #books #boxes #candy #cereal

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand. ↗

— Adam Jones

#easy way #i #i think #just #labels

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing. ↗

— Barry Lyga

#emotion #labels #anger

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. ↗

— John Shirley

#artists #born #categories #confuse #entertain

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bottled #essence #labels #names #our

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' ↗

— David R. Brower

#doing #even #hide #instance #labels

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

— Stephenie Meyer

#bree-tanner #diego #labels #super-secret-ninja-club #vampire

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#ecology #health #labels #nature #psychology

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#names #war #president