Quotes About Labels

I enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.

I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Everybody has felt a little sweet but psycho, and I'm sure everybody has been called sweet but psycho.

Use only those adjectives that call forth the qualities of the object; avoid adjectives that label or explain. Words like lovely, old, wonderful, noteworthy or remarkable are explanatory labels; they do not suggest sense impressions. Adjectives like bug-eyed, curly, bumpy, frayed or moss-covered, on the other hand, are descriptive.

And do I perhaps miss the point altogether? Is the guy who wears Tommy on his back participating in a clever, knowing, postmodern joke, whose unspoken text is that we all secretly care about labels, so why not acknowledge that in big campy letters? It may be. But I don't think so.

Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.

Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That's even worse than waterboy.

If we buy into categories of sexual orientation based solely on gender--heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual-- we're cheating ourselves of a searching examination of our real sexual preferences.

Our spirits are full of possibilities, yet we tie ourselves down to socially-prescribed names and categories so we're acceptable to more people. We take on identities that no one has to think about, and that's probably how we become and why we remain men and women.

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.

I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered if I´m a Goth, a homosexual, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic-depressive, wheter I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, mostly regretfully, come to conclusion that I´m none of the above. The fact is I´m actually not ANYTHING.

Whatever people say you are, that is what you're not.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

From the Author's Note: In my conversations with Mexican people, I seldom heard the word American used to describe a citizen of this country – instead they use a word we don't even have in English estadounidense, United States-ian.

But do I have "low intelligence"?

The candy bars in their paper wrappers also had interesting names such as "Nummy Bar

It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.

Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.

remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.

The word "autistic" is accurate. But so are other words that we no longer use to describe people: spinster (unmarried woman), hobo (migrant worker), cripple (person with a physical handicap), and so on. The fact that a person is unmarried or has sustained a mobility-reducing injury or birth defect certainly figures into their life experiences, but it does not define their character—unless they or we let it.