I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones. — Rila Fukushima Copy Share Image
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point. — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting. — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
“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… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors. — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it:… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting… — Guy Adams Copy Share Image
So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I… — Ben Kweller Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Along with astronomy and alchemy, collecting was what made Rudolf happy. He mistrusted people. He could hear them now. Whispering voices. Murmuring… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
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