Quotes About Collection

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

When our bed is made it's covered in forty pillows like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

OMNIUM GATHERUM

here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife.

He probably built up the blood collection over weeks.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.

There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.