Collecting Quotes

285 Collecting quotes by 258 unique authors

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me. — Karen Marie Moning
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do… — Jeanette Winterson
Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to… — Guy Adams
I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once… — Veronica Roth
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — Ayn Rand
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. — Thomas Boswell
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you. — Paul Mellon
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. — Alan Ritchson
I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans. — Lynda Resnick
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. — Deep Roy
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a… — Julian Assange
Taking photos is a form of collecting. — Martin Parr
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. — Robert J. Shiller
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place. — Sheherazade Goldsmith
I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit… — Rick Bayless
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I… — Hamish Bowles
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from… — Hamish Bowles
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all… — Ron Eglash
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine,… — Thomas R. Insel
Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me. — Corneille Ewango
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,… — John le Carre
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music… — Kaskade
I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that… — Richard MacDonald
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well… — B.F. Skinner

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