Collecting Quotes
285 Collecting quotes by 258 unique authors
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Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are…
— Dominique de Menil
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A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
— Sigmund Freud
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Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.
— Eli Broad
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She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all…
— Neil Abercrombie
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By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
— Richard Lugar
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We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business…
— Sue Kelly
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I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm…
— Jason Wu
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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 mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket…
— Alan Watts
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Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for…
— Henry Mancini
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I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the…
— Michael Audain
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I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I…
— Josh Duhamel
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After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
— A S W Rosenbach
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Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.
— Trevor Dunn
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People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life…
— Dominic West
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of…
— Bill Gates
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Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.
— Robert Kraft
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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting…
— Jeff Tweedy
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I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
— Annie Sprinkle
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The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a…
— Mike Moreno
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Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.
— Daniel Ek
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I…
— Lady Starlight
Who Wrote These Collecting Quotes
258 authors contributed a total of 285 Collecting Quotes, led by these top contributors: