Quotes About Collecting

Many of us have become embodied "Consumers-Of-THINGS" ignoring our original soul purpose as "Collectors-Of-EXPERIENCES".

The joys of life sometime come in hidden shapes, unexpected. Great or small, short or tall, be sure to have them all collected.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

Some people collect stamps; I like fashion, discovering nice new things. I feel good about doing that.

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

A book collector is mad enough to begin with, Watson; but tempt him with some such bait as this Shakespeare quarto and he is bereft of all sanity.

There are one or two people I'm fond of, and there's a little good music, and a few pictures, now and then—just enough to keep one dangling about here. Ah, but I couldn't live with savages! Are you fond of books? Music? Pictures? D'you care at all for first editions? I've got a few nice things up here, things I pick up cheap, for I can't afford to give what they ask.

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

Collecting the facts is a revolutionary act. Insisting on the right to do so is perhaps the most subversive action possible

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

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

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

The future turned out to be just as incredible as I imagined it would be when I was little. But these days, I just want to slow down. I want to pull the shutters closed and block out the world. I want to spend hours gluing things together. I want to fill my house with tiny bits of collected junk. The more I have, the more I realize that all that matters is

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.

And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?