Collecting Quotes · Page 17

It will be the CIA's mission and my own if confirmed to ensure that the agency remains the best in the world…

— Mike Pompeo

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was…

— Peter Dinklage

Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,…

— Tito Colliander

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

— Ernest Rutherford

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it…

— Carol Gilligan

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

— Anonymous

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes.…

— Mitch Daniels

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities…

— Samuel Johnson

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

— Karen Marie Moning

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about…

— Roberto Calasso

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

— Michael Anthony

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,…

— Charles Heiser

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now…

— Jean Pigozzi

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

— Shirley M. Tilghman

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

— Linus Pauling

Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent…

— Franco Modigliani

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial…

— Alan Brien

The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it…

— Thomas Koerfer

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…

— Thomas Frank

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

— Ville Valo

I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things…

— Ryan Gander

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

— Lord Kelvin