Quotes About Collection

Wealth is when you have a lot of something you love.

Mike Sager's collection, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks.)

My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

I Hate fire-arms! he exclaimed as he viewed the collection distastefully. They are dangerous things, and when it comes to business they are scurvy weapons. Any poltroon can pull a trigger.

Lewis and I played my-God-how-tacky-is-that? with Patrick's collection of objets d'crap, finally coming to the conclusion that only a going-out-of-business sale at a whorehouse could really explain a lot of it.

I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian

Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines

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Among those items were a hundred and six one-hour audiocassette tapes

A good life is a collection of happy moments.

People plan their reading? Takes all kinds… Books just find me. They converge upon me like flocks of benevolent vultures. They follow me home, wagging their tails. I'm pretty sure they breed in the dark, too, like mushrooms. When I finish a book, I pick up whatever looks most appealing from the tottering piles at hand.

I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of dollars to attain it. It's authentic, at least.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

In the house, I have a drawer that's just filled with Carmex. It's just my thing.

Possessing best musical equipment has always been my craze.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

If you've ever wondered where the good songs go After they've had their day, You'll be glad to meet a man I know, Wrinkled old and gray. He collects the tunes that time has thrown aside— Puts them under lock and key; For a penny he is glad to set them free.

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

Among your books, in this assortment that does not make up a library, a dead or dormant part can still be distinguished, which is the store of volumes put aside, books read and rarely reread, or books you have not and will not read but have still retained (and dusted), and then a living part, which is the books you are reading or plan to read or from which you have not yet detached yourself or books you enjoy handling, seeing around you.

But it's nice to see the books all together. I love books…

It was over. But I would have their baseball cards to help me remember them forever. And the rest is history.

It is really a portrait of the family of King Philip IV of Spain, and it was only in a catalogue of the royal collection of pictures written in 1843 by Pedro de Madrazo that the title Las Meninas (which means 'The Ladies in Waiting') was given to the work.