Best 96 quotes in «collections quotes» category

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

You're only as good as your record collection.

A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector’s need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It’s too much—and it’s just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

Are you willing to accept anything less than the credit you want, the credit you need and the credit you deserve?

If repairing one's credit is as easy as sending some dispute letters to the credit bureaus then why doesn't everyone have good credit?

Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they had found. Bizarre, misspelled letters written by lovelorn eighth graders. Obscene Polaroids left in between the pages of library books. They used to call each other on the phone to share their latest discovery, and Critter had always remained a little off to the side, never feeling quite as sharp or ironic as they were. Critter was an electrician, primarily home repair, and so he didn't usually come across anything except bad wiring and faulty lighting fixtures.

Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)

If you don't take good care of your credit, then your credit won't take good care of you.

I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.

Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.

Isn't it sad that we have to gain control of the artificial numbers placed upon us by others to regain some control of our lives?

The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

For everyday, Rebecca Minkoff's collection is chic and comfortable at the same time.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

I don't do heroin myself, but it's done wonders for my music collection.

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and...if anything, that's one thing I would love.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.