Collecting Quotes

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.