Quotes About Hoarding

No matter how many women you bring home, there's never a storage problem.

I would moreover submit that, in regard to the power of hoarding up impressions, Russian children of my generation passed through a period of genius, as if destiny were loyally trying what it could for them by giving them more than their share, in view of the cataclysm that was to remove completely the world they had known.

The next morning, Louie was taken to an airfield to be flown to Okinawa, where many POWs were being collected before being sent home. Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore. Looking extremely pregnant, Louie boarded the plane.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

For the same reason that I am not a hoarder of money,' said the old man, 'I am not lavish of it. Some people find their gratification in storing it up; and others theirs in parting with it; but I have no gratification connected with the thing. Pain and bitterness are the only goods it ever could procure for me. I hate it. It is a spectre walking before me through the world, and making every social pleasure hideous.

I saw someone who was hoarding toilet paper. I told him what to do with it. What could he say? It was what he was planning anyway.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

In 1979 the bitter self-made men were hoarding gold and reading How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, a personal-finance best seller as recklessly gloomy as the best sellers of the nineties were senselessly optimistic.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation

I love Pinterest. It's electronic hoarding without the clutter.

The etiology of miserliness is love of the fleeting, material aspects of this world. The miser ardently clings to his wealth and hoards it.

I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck. I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and underlinings they are irreplaceable; but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish. ~ Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Child.

That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

It's not unusual for my room to be stacked with newspapers gathered during a trip.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

I love sneakers. My storage room is 75 percent sneakers.

Every time they came to power, the Congress engaged in large scale corruption. Even when they were in power, they did nothing to stop the hoarding of black money in offshore havens.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you want to write. And you get this stuff by hoarding it, by faithfully making notes and squirreling them away.