AtomicQuote

Jerry Spinelli Quote

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Tags: labels, milkweed, name, self

Related Quotes

You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things tr...

Shannon L. Alder

You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things tr...

Tags: add, anxiety, bias, cruelty, defamation, disturbing, fear, integrity, john green, labels

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

Kathy Acker

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

Tags: control, destruction, labels, life, names, nomenclature

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

Nick Webb

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

Tags: douglas adams, judgment, labels, nick webb, personality, wish you were here

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Tags: control, controlling, definition, freedom, freeing, goals, idea, ideas, label, labeling

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing...

Nanette Mathews

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing...

Tags: comparison to others, ego, inspirational, judgment, labels, limit ourselves, self love, self worth, validation

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual...

Robert Anton Wilson

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual...

Tags: damned, demonized, different, disliked, excluded, feared, individual, labels, misunderstood, ostracised

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurt...

Philip Pullman

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurt...

Tags: complicated, deed, evil, good, labels, name, people

Titles are prisons of human potential

Natasha Tsakos

Titles are prisons of human potential

Tags: labeling, labels, potential, titles

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

Orrin Woodward

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

Tags: change, labeling, labels, transformation

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Johnny Depp

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Tags: congress, french fries, government, labels
About Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.