Best 96 quotes in «collections quotes» category

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.

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

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

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?

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

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

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

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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

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.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

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

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

Europe is a collection of free countries.

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

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

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

History: a collection of epitaphs.

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

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

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

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

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

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

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

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 have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

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

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

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

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

I'm not extra'd out. I got a cool little vinyl collection.