The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Ann Leckie
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
Annie Jump Cannon
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.
Antonio Damasio
I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
Benedict Wong
Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.
Billy Unger
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
Bobby Jindal
I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.
Brendon Urie
Don't classify me, read me.
Carlos Fuentes
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.
Chris Gethard
Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
Clemantine Wamariya
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
Dan Brown
I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.
David Stras
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.
Dizzee Rascal
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
Eugene H. Peterson
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
Fred Tomaselli
When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting.
Gail Simone
The significant regulatory impact of reclassifying broadband services is not something that should be taken lightly and should not be done without additional direction from Congress.
Gene Green
I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
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.
Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
Kelvin Gastelum, there's many ways I can classify his style. I like it. He's improved. One thing I can say is that he's improved over his run in the UFC from 'The Ultimate Fighter' and now being a contender. But his style? It's very Mexican. You have the Mexican style of boxing, and he has a Mexican style of MMA, like smart Mexican style.
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 would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.
If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
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 wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.
I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.
'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.
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.
I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.
I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.
I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are climate sensitive. For example, wheat is a climate sensitive crop, while rice shows a wide range of adaptation in terms of growing conditions.
You can classify farmers into two major groups. One who saves seeds for the next crop and the other who purchases seeds from the market. Most of the commercial farmers like the US farmers are people who purchase seeds.
Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
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.
In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!
