The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

Elmore Leonard

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

Alan Stern

I hate being categorized.

Alexis Ren

I like challenges, and I hate being categorized. It's always been a thing of mine.

Alexis Ren

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

Alice McDermott

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Angel Haze

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

Anne Murray

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

Armin van Buuren

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

Billy Squier

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

Blake McIver Ewing

I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'

Brad Feld

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.

Chris Wood

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

Daisy Shah

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?

Daniel Levitin

Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.

David Perlmutter

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

David Rose

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

Dianne Reeves

I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

Donatella Versace

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Dorothy Allison

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

Douglas Brinkley