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Quotes About Collection

I am the face of my friend Yasmine Eslami's lingerie brand, so I have an entire collection of her lingerie.
~ Jeanne Damas
I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
~ Richard Dawkins
In 1989, Morita set out his views in a collection of essays titled The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals. The book was coauthored with Shintaro Ishihara, a controversial far-right politician.
~ Chris Miller
See form, see line, see light, see shadow. See relationships of lines. The model is a collection of these elements, not a body.
~ Christopher Moore
collection of black and red flesh floating in space, raw, skinless, glossy with oozing fluids.
~ Christopher Paolini
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .
~ Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
~ Umberto Eco
Though poor, he had succeeded in gathering together, through patience, self-denial, and time, a valuable collection of rare volumes of every genre. He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
~ Victor Hugo
She collected grudges and heartaches the way she'd once collected Barbies, never sharing, never abandoning.
~ Kristin Hannah
Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.
~ Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
If we regard power as a stream of water that yet can be beamed and focused, we can see that a central collection station in a country may receive the power from a source and then deflect and focus it to subreceivers which, in turn, can focus it upon consumption units.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
laying out a standard planetary power-collection-and-distribution system using microwaves.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Even among the Japanese themselves, no scientific knowledge of their own history is yet possible; because the means of obtaining that knowledge have not yet been prepared,—though mountains of material have been collected.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
he collected the stories like treasure.
~ Laini Taylor
Tienes razón. Muy aburrida. Empezaré a coleccionar sellos. Eso es interesante, ¿no? - No. A menos que te los vayas a pegar por el cuerpo y los utilices como ropa.
~ Laini Taylor
Her Czech was freshly acquired (by wish, not study; Karou collected languages, and that's what Brimstone always gave her for her birthday) and it had still tasted strange on her tongue, like a new spice.
~ Laini Taylor
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.
~ Cassandra Clare
The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.
~ Cassandra Clare
A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six...
~ Glen Duncan
there is no check or limit on the NSA's bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government's interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so broad that even the law's original authors were shocked to learn how it was being used.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Another BOUNDLESS INFORMANT document detailed the international data collected in a single thirty-day period from Germany (500 million), Brazil (2.3 billion), and India (13.5 billion). And yet other files showed collection of metadata in cooperation with the governments of France (70 million), Spain (60 million), Italy (47 million), the Netherlands (1.8 million), Norway (33 million), and Denmark (23 million).
~ Glenn Greenwald
The agency regards itself as needing no specific justification to collect any particular electronic communication,
~ Glenn Greenwald