I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.
We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
The minute we have a pain, we want a diagnosis. So I think the minute we feel love, it's very hard to just let it be. We want to identify it, we want to catalog it, we want to keep the thing and create the environment it happened in. That's where marriage comes from! Let's make an institution out of it!
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.
I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.
I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.
There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.
One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.
When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
