Collected Quotes

229 quotes by 209 authors

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an… — Taslima Nasrin
As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something. — Jean Pigozzi
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected… — Jimmy Reid
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for… — Gerhard Richter
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I… — Gerhard Richter
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'Ãªtre. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or… — Steven Chu
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling
Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends. — Joshua Bell
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything. — Bill Condon
The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able… — Stephen Cambone
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go,… — Michael Fassbender
Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once… — Mike Fitzpatrick
And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and… — Jeffrey Jones
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth… — Vinod Khosla
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life… — Rajneesh
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a… — Edward Gibbon
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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