Collected Quotes
229 quotes by 209 authors
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to…
— Patrick Kavanagh
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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency…
— Unknown Author
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Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one…
— Joseph Heller
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I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much…
— Harvey Pekar
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I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to…
— Lisa Alther
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A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
— Al Purdy
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My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word'…
— Franklin Graham
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The 50s were great because I collected stamps.
— Robert Plant
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It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the…
— Florence Welch
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of…
— Ezra Stiles
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We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The…
— Rajneesh
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It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to…
— Sarah Kay
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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
— Thom Gunn
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It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
— Grazia Deledda
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Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn…
— Cole Younger
Who Wrote These Collected Quotes
209 authors contributed a total of 229 Collected Quotes, led by these top contributors: