William Golding Quotes

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

People like to pigeonhole you.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.

I've now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

Whomever you are and whatever your relationship is to work, I think we all have suffered from being over-hyphenated. You know, 'working-mom,' 'tiger-mom,' 'stay-at-home-mom'... how about 'mom?'

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.