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Quotes About Collection

Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.
~ Nick Hornby
Den musik man redan har räcker inte en hel livstid, inte om man lyssnar på musik varje dag och så fort man kommer åt.
~ Nick Hornby
Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection?
~ Nick Hornby
Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many. I never thought about it quite that way. Well, you're a man. She gave his knee a friendly pat.
~ Nora Roberts
Shopping for shoes has nothing to do with need, and everything to do with lust. Do you know how many pairs I own? No. Neither do I!
~ Nora Roberts
All these stupid rocks, I say, what's your goal? This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It's about the doing, you know, the process. But what are you going to do with all these rocks? And Denny says, I don't know until I collect enough. But what's enough? I say. I don't know, dude, Denny says, I just want the days of my life to add up to something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A jug of his urine Ã¢â'¬â€œ the product of seven days' collection Ã¢â'¬â€œ stood on the left of the altar, should they require some spontaneous gesture of self-defilement.
~ Clive Barker
I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.
~ Colin Bateman
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
~ Vincent Starrett
Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.
~ Vincent Starrett
A steel-blue plume from one of them fell among the heather. She loved wild birds' feathers. She had used to collect them as a boy. She picked it up and stuck it in her hat.
~ Virginia Woolf
Não acredito em separações. Não somos seres individuais. Para mais, tenho vontade de alargar a minha colecção de observações valiosas a respeito da verdadeira natureza humana. Por certo que a minha obra constará de muitos volumes e abrangerá de todos os tipos conhecidos de homens e mulheres.
~ Virginia Woolf
a halál nem több, csak a magány végtelen töredékeinek teljesebb kollekciója.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
~ Larry Niven
Wise Investing series is a collection of stories and analogies designed to demonstrate that the winning investment strategy is a simple, elegant,
~ Larry Swedroe
Wise Investing series is a collection of stories and analogies designed to demonstrate that the winning
~ Larry Swedroe
things like toothpastes from around the world and a shoe once thrown at the head of a former president of the United States.
~ Laura Ruby
A collection of legends exist that are well-known in Armenia and Syria. This collection is entitled: 'The Bees.' The legends were later revised by Mar Salamon, a Nestorian Archimandrite who lived in the thirteenth century, Possibly the collection of legends refers to a mysterious energy transmitted in symbolic design from the time of Zoroaster.
~ Laurence Galian
The wife can file for a retirement benefit, but then immediately suspend its collection and restart the benefit at or before age 70, during which time she will earn Delayed Retirement Credits of 8 percent a year.
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
The wife can file for a retirement benefit, but then immediately suspend its collection and restart the benefit at or before age 70, during which time she will earn Delayed Retirement Credits of 8 percent a year. But filing for her own retirement benefit permits her spouse to file a restricted application just for his spousal benefit.
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
You Can File and Suspend to Get Benefits for Your Spouse To enable your spouse to receive spousal benefits, you need to file for your retirement benefit. But you don't need to take your retirement benefit if you file after reaching FRA. You can, instead, file and suspend—that is, file for your benefit, but suspend its collection. This way you can wait until 70 to begin taking your own retirement benefit, when it will be at its largest value thanks to the Delayed Retirement Credit.
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
~ Charles Baxter
The floor behind the driver's seat was littered with eight-tracks, but at night it was always Frampton Comes Alive!
~ Charles Benoit
Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson