Collecting Quotes

285 Collecting quotes by 258 unique authors

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. — Thelonious Monk
I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time… — Chris Paul
Collecting has always been in my blood. — Walter Chrysler
He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to… — Thomas Jefferson
Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater… — Cyrus the Great
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had… — Charles Heiser
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Unknown Author
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans… — John Shadegg
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting… — John Shadegg
Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be… — Charles Saatchi
I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are… — Jenson Button
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 one of nature's… — Howard Hodgkin
Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs, and so… — Tim Cook
We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave… — Mitch Daniels
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.… — Stella Gibbons
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:… — Roberto Calasso
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an… — Abbie Hoffman
Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust. — Tim Vine
One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into… — John Jeremiah Sullivan
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf… — Peter Lynch
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting… — L. Ron Hubbard
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman

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