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Quotes About Catalogs

9.01 Nausea catalogs the indigestible contents of the stomach that are to be brought up. 9.02 Memory that is nauseating catalogs the contents of the mind that can never be brought up.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Which is weird for a Portuguese. The Portuguese like big balls, fat, and car catalogs.
~ Yasmina Reza
I wear a size 16 shoe, which isn't too bad. I can't usually go into a store and buy them, but there are catalogs throughout the country for big and tall people that I can order from.
~ Shawn Bradley
I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libraries, when catalogs are going down in value, the answer is that it's all about price!
~ Jon Feltheimer
All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
Vegetable seed catalogs have replaced the penny candy store. The fireballs, the root-beer barrels, and the licorice whips aren't sold at the corner anymore. Now the sweets are sold by seed companies instead. There's "candystick" and "sweet slice" and "sugar rock" but these aren't types of candy, they are varieties of sweet corn, cucumber and musk melon.
~ Roger B. Swain
Metadata is stored in a variety of retrieval tools (a collective term used to describe bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, museum registers, bibliographic databases, search engines, and other tools that help users find information resources).
~ Arlene G. Taylor
I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
~ Jen Lancaster
I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.
~ Ricky Schroder
Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.
~ Anita Elberse
pass, shaking his head slightly as if to clear it. "This guy Professor Peierls, he told me that he was convinced the Krauts didn't have a big, coherent program. See, he got hold of catalogs of courses in German universities. He compared them with those from past years, hunting them up in the Cambridge University library. He saw that the usual people were teaching the usual physics courses.
~ Gregory Benford
But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning
~ Meg Cabot
We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be "made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.
~ Michael Pollan
But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning
~ Meg Cabot
Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the catalogs, looked up the food we wanted, called them up, and they would show up in trucks.
~ John Mackey
I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.
~ Melissa Ordway
SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches—and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.
~ Tom Robbins
Latest estimates, extrapolating from the current catalogs, suggests as many as forty billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone. Those are the planets our descendants might want to visit someday, by choice, if not by necessity.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
These exhibitions, and the stories behind them, should also in due course have their own catalogs and novels. As visitors admire the objects and honor the memory of Füsun and Kemal, with due reverence, they will understand that, like the tales of Leyla and Mecnun or Hüsn and AÈ™k, this is not simply a story of lovers, but of the entire realm, that is, of Istanbul.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I've always found old bookstores exciting. Whenever I'm in a city that's new to me, I immedicately look through the telephone directory for BOOKS, USED AND RARE. Book dealers send me their catalogs, and I read them as carefully as I would a letter from an old friend, never knowing what treasure I might find. Sometimes the catalogs contain printed material other than books, such as old photographs, newspapers, pamphlets, postcards, and letters.
~ Walter Dean Myers
The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.
~ David Rose
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.
~ Shepard Fairey
Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.
~ Leon Gorman