#labels

When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more organized than she was. She knew it was weird and blamed her mother, with the lists and notes she’d leave whenever she and Dad went out of town. The labeled dinners in the freezer and the 20 emergency numbers on the phone showed she cared, even when absent, she cared. ↗

— Victoria Kahler

#lists #ocd #organization #love

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

He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends." It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, really. "You already saved me," I say. "That was nothing." "I'm not talking about the cave." He wrinkles his nose. "That first day," I say, "When you got up on the rocks to flirt with a human boy." He smiles big, with all his ground-down teeth shining. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#loved-and-lost #no-labels-needed #love

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#fresh #got #i #i think #keep

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#business #charge #company #got #jam

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

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination? ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#names #imagination

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