Quotes About Collection

I collect motorcycles and art.

Census taking is among the oldest ways of collecting statistics. Much newer, but with similar aspirations to reach everyone, is "big data." Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of Oxford's Internet Institute, and coauthor of the book Big Data, told me that his favored definition of a big dataset is one where "N = All"—where we no longer have to sample, because we have the entire background population.[18

Fullbring is the ability of love! It's the ability to draw out the maximum power of something a person loves! A guy like Ginjo who only likes his pendant…turns that pendant into a weapon to fight with! But not me!! I love a lot of things. And I'll keep looking for new things I love! I wanna spend the rest of my life collecting things I love…and die surrounded by them!

if the world were a museum of memories, a collection of places she'd outgrown.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

In the description of matter as a collection of molecules instead of a continuum, questions related to reversibility are presented for the first time in the invention, almost as a joke, of what is now known as "Maxwell's demon".

Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it.

What we call "time" is a complex collection of structures,2 of layers. Under increasing scrutiny, in ever greater depth, time has lost layers one after another, piece by piece. The first part of this book gives an account of this crumbling of time.

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

My own collection of mascara wands, eyebrow pencils, lip, lid and blusher brushes were stored on the lavender vanity top in an antique sun-purpled Victorian glass spoon holder.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written." "That's great. That's something to be proud of." But did you read them, fuckface?

He is also, not surprisingly, a philatelist, a collector and admirer of stamps.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

See, this was his kind of decorating. An active mind don't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers

What's up with the statue routine?" Trez muttered. "Someone move your My Little Pony collection again?

encontrava-se rodeada por uma colecção de livros antigos, muitos dos quais abertos. A visão de todas aquelas páginas lembrava-lhe cães ansiosos deitados de costas à espera de festas na barriga.

We took up a collection and sent a telegram to the authorities of that town. The text of the message was that eighty-five healthy, hungry hoboes would arrive about noon and that it would be a good idea to have dinner ready for them.

What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

I must have, like, four different types of lip moisturizer in my bag!

I have a thing for earphones - I have five types.