Collections Quotes

649 Collections quotes by 535 unique authors

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the… — Amy Sedaris
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and… — Robert L. Bartley
[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.) — John Ringo
My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all… — Madeleine Peyroux
The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little… — Hugh Prather
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Thomas Sladek
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music… — Natalia Kills
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind. — Marcel Proust
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection. — Bill Maher
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked… — Daniel Handler
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status item. Our denim… — Johan Lindeberg
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants… — Kurt Vonnegut
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. — Jean Paul Gaultier
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had… — Alison Bechdel
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. — Quentin Tarantino
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something… — David Fincher
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember… — Paul Nurse
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. — Mike Oldfield
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there. — Zac Posen

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