Collections Quotes
649 Collections quotes by 535 unique authors
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The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,…
— Sherman Alexie
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All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on…
— V. S. Pritchett
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The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
— Augustine Birrell
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Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
— James Arthur Ray
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Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard…
— Emmet Fox
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
— Anna Quindlen
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Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence…
— Geneen Roth
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
— Valerie Solanas
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and…
— Gautama Buddha
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Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense…
— Roger N. Walsh
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Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a…
— John Thorne
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A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only…
— Gerald Asher
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I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it…
— Unknown Author
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The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time…
— Kate Bernheimer
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Unknown Author
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
— Marc Almond
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Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.
— Unknown Author
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A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.
— Tim Cook
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No collection without compensation.
— Jeff Rich
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The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which…
— Corey Taylor
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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from…
— Gillian Flynn
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is…
— Sylvia Plath
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Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right -…
— Howard Hodgkin
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Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!
— George Carlin
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Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Collections Quotes
535 authors contributed a total of 649 Collections Quotes, led by these top contributors: