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Quotes About Miscellany

What I thought was infinite will turn out to be just a couple of odds and ends, a tiny miscellany, miniature stuff, fragments of novelties, of no great moment. But it will also be enough, maybe even more than enough, to suggest an immense ritual and tradition. And this makes me very happy. From "Happy As The Day Is Long
~ James Tate
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.
~ Charles Dickens
objects, including fans and vases and folding chairs and clothes.
~ Roberta Edwards
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
~ Shaun Tan
What a hotch-potch the world was!
~ Sylvia Plath
uncontrollable little nests of miscellany. He
~ Val McDermid
OMNIUM GATHERUM
~ James Joyce
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
~ Daniel Hannan
He headed back up the midway. At the end of it, he looked down to his right. That was the Concourse. He'd have to walk down that later, anyway, so he turned to his left and followed a much less-crowded street past a miscellany of buildings, and at the end, looked past a gate and over an extensive campground.
~ John Sandford
A mass of mixed-up jumbled, unlike objects is clutter. (Chapter 1)
~ Unknown