Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely…

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on…

— Susan Sontag

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for…

— Anonymous

“Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself—it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of…

— Susan Sontag

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started.…

— Philippe Petit

I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at…

— Veronica Roth

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

— Hamish Bowles

Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

— Kesh

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

— Mitch Albom

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed,…

— Loretta Chase

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was…

— Alan Ritchson

My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's houses. The…

— Dane Cook

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two…

— Henry Mancini

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

— Martin Parr

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald