Category Quotes

[Lulu is launching the Blooker - whose name is an affectionate nod to another important literary prize - as a global contest to mark the 450th anniversary this year of Gutenberg's invention of moveable type in 1455.] Blooks are the latest landmark in the history of books ... They are a new stage in the life-cycle of content, if not an whole new category of literature, with its own creative process and emerging literary style. - Bob Young

[Kenneth Lonergan won the $25,000 prize in the feature film category for] You Can Count on Me. ... Wit. - Emma Thompson

[Is Davis next?] He's done it before already, ... He's obviously in that category. - Chris Mullin

[IEG, a Chicago-based company that tracks sponsorship deals, first broke out action-sports sponsorships in 2004 when the category approached $100 million.] In our view of the world, that makes it a significant category unto itself... It's proven that it isn't a fad. - Jim Andrews

[But overnight, the storm intensified - Katrina was a Category 5 by 7 a.m. Aug. 28 - and Patti Johnston convinced her husband to leave. Only by then, they couldn't get a flight or a car.] People were in front of the hotel selling their vans, rides for $5,000, $6,000. ... Junk vans, not even window vans, cargo vans. - Mike Johnston

[As Frazer hurled more accusations at Reid, among them that the Catholic community had] butchered Protestants... You're in the same category as the Nazis, as far as I'm concerned. - Alec Reid

[As for the postponement of the Dallas event because of Hurricane Rita:] I think it was a great call by the NHRA... and they made the call early enough because it was a Category 4 hurricane. That's nothing to mess with, especially with what happened in Louisiana. It was also 100 degrees in Dallas. We have another two weeks now to hope that it cools down some. - Gary Scelzi

[Amy Walter, who tracks House elections for Cook, said,] Republicans have done a good job building these levees, but we haven't seen them tested in a Category 5 storm. ... The annals of redistricting are replete with stories of parties that thought they drew themselves into safety but got blown away. - Bruce Cain

(This) will upgrade the resources from the 'inferred' to the 'indicated' category necessary to advance the project to a pre-feasibility stage. - Walter Brown