Collecting Quotes

285 Collecting quotes by 258 unique authors

Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues… — James Gleick
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves… — Gotye
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get… — James Webb Young
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. — Joyce Meyer
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and… — Cofer Black
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much… — Henry R. Luce
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in… — Richard Fortey
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it. — Ray Mears
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. — Sarah Hall
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,… — James Salter
I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a… — Peter Kay
In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation… — Astley Cooper
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in… — Jay Roach
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be… — Derrick Jensen
If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or… — Arianna Huffington
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. — Karl Lagerfeld
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner. — Dale Carnegie
I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the… — Peter Mayle
To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want… — Ali Vincent
To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters… — Edward Snowden
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and… — Thomas Frank
But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete… — Julian Sanchez
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Claude Levi-Strauss
The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home. — Burt Reynolds

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