Collecting Quotes

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!