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Quotes About Collections

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.
~ Robert Christgau
He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long. No
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Los relatos no se venden. Los editores suelen hacer estas colecciones como un favor a sus autores consagrados.
~ Ian Mcewan
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
~ Camilla Belle
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in Europe, America, New Zealand and Japan. I'd also been asked to curate shows, and had made work to go with my selections from historical collections.
~ Grayson Perry
We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
~ Glen Duncan
On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
~ Eva Herzigova
Some places that I have been, I have brought a token or some home from different places I have been. Some of them are around the house, and some of them are tucked away safely.
~ Milo Ventimiglia
It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.
~ Anna Wintour
The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
~ Matthew Williamson
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.
~ Eli Broad
The goal is to reverse the first law of entrepreneurial gravity and develop a viable business model in which the faster you grow, the more cash you generate — through larger deposits, faster collections, shorter sales and delivery cycles, etc. Then you've built a company that can self-fund its own growth.
~ Verne Harnish
The local IRS office lost about two million dollars in illegal collections they'd been getting.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
All Librarians are members of the Catalogue. That's what you call a coven when it's made up of Librarians instead of witches. Librarians have sorted and alphabetized all the magic that ever thought to put a rabbit and a hat together. Who do you think invented Special Collections?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.
~ Jeremy Scott
I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but how the collection stands in the lexicon of an established designer. As I am a maximalist, not a minimalist, I don't wear Armani or Celine - but I so appreciate what they have achieved.
~ Suzy Menkes
It is ten years since Virginia Woolf published her last volume of collected essays, THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. At the time of her death she was already engaged in getting together essays for a further volume, which she proposed to publish in the autumn of 1941 or the spring Of 1942. She also intended to publish a new book of short stories, including in it some or all of MONDAY OR TUESDAY, which has been long out of print. She left
~ Virginia Woolf
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
~ Chad Harbach
Some of those encounters appear in the multivolume War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (commonly known as the Official Records), and many others appear in the Freedom series of document collections edited by the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.
~ Chandra Manning
as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.
~ Charles Dickens
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
~ Charles Lamb