Quotes About Collection

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

So, where does all that stuff come from? It comes from three main sources: stuff is bought and kept out of fear; stuff is collected and kept out of love. And stuff is kept and multiplied out of habit (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

The Prophet himself sometimes openly suppressed or negated older verses, considering them to have been replaced by newer ones. That is because Muhammad did not consider the Quran to be a static Revelation, which may be why he never bothered to authorize its collection into a codified book. The Quran was for Muhammad a living scripture that consciously evolved alongside the Ummah, continually adapting itself to meet the specific needs of the developing community.

Over the next three or four months we simply collected all our procedures manuals…People would ask us from time to time when the new manuals would be ready. Eventually, some began to suspect that an update wasn't going to appear and asked us why. Only then did we say aloud what we had been thinking: that we were trading written rules for common sense. And that is the system we have today, which is barely a system at all.

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life.

Inspecting? What do you mean? I don't understand. I'm collecting insects. My specialty is sand and insects. What? Collecting insects. Insects. Insects.I catch them like this! Insects?

Buy what you don't have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

I try to collect money and I keep it in a special place called the bank. I collect a bunch of things called money, dollar bills, and I keep them in a safe under my bed.

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

Life is a beautiful collection of temporary experiences. Treasure your unique collection, and enjoy sharing it with others.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.