Quotes on the topic: Lists


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Lists have always implied social order.


If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.


The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.


I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.


Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists 'tomato' as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.


I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.


When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.


For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.


The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.


Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.


Lists are how I parse and manage the world.


People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.


I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.


I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.


Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.


I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.


I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.


Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.


Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.


My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.