Quotes About Compilation

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I remember so vividly the first time I saw one of Marshall Wyatt's superb compilations called 'Folks He Sure Do Pull Some Bow' and seeing a picture of a black fiddler and freaking out. I had stumbled upon the hidden legacy of the black string band and I wanted to know more.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

in the Torah, the word torah never refers to the Torah. In fact, the Torah does not explicitly suggest that it was compiled by Moses himself. (The phrase "the Torah" in passages such as Deut. 4.44, "This is the torah that Moses set before the Israelites," never refers to the complete Torah—there the reference is to [most of] the book of Deuteronomy.)

Never index your own book.

I have had a long experience in the compilation of statistics. From that experience I can assure you that in 87% of cases dishonesty does not pay.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he's one of the finest authors.

I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.

I collect all kinds of things.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I'm a collector of everything.

Rafe grinned. So we are dating? No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate. I turned to my parents. We have Kenji. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need. Dad chocked on his coffee.

When Aristotle said that poetry is superior to history because history only tells us "what Alcibiades did or had done to him," he had in mind history as the mere compilation of facts. To matter, history has to do more. It has to reconnect people, in time, to what Aristotle called the "timeless forms" of nature.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

I've had a couple tapes out and they weren't really tapes, it was just some songs that I had made, and then I would throw them together as a compilation and put a name on it. And then when I would release my next thing, I would just delete it.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.

will always ride hard for Mick's Paul phase, summed up by the compilation Through the Past, Darkly, with its awesomely ridiculous octagonal cover.

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

The German organized plundering, planned it, disciplined it, and made it official just as he organized everything else, and then he compiled the most meticulous records to show that he had done the best job of looting that was possible under the circumstances. And we have those records.

Sinclair was even more impassioned. He owned large estates in Caithness and in the 1790s he compiled his detailed Statistical Account of Scotland, a compendium of information on geography, economy and society and history that would eventually grow to twenty-one volumes. Putting the new theories

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

The flexibility of the compilation, the ability to create bespoke texts from segments of other works, was one of the key features distinguishing the manuscript book world from the age of print, where the order and nature of texts was established before they came into the hands of the purchaser. This loss of autonomy in the creation of books would be one of the major sources of regret among established collectors in the transition from manuscript to print in the fifteenth century.