Quotes About Collection

The Philippines is a collection of seven thousand islands spread over a far-flung archipelago in the South China Sea.

The Hermitage was a key location

Her mother had amassed twelve sets of tapestries, one on the theme of the Twelve Labors of Hercules

Mary's tapestries were the glory of her collection. She had some twenty complete sets

the trackers, an even more pathetic collection of tatterdemalions than our porters of the morning, began to attach themselves resignedly to the lines. They had such sad faces!

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

Interesting." He said it like computer freaks do when they're preoccupied. "What?" Lucas asked. He got a minute of silence, then: "This is an unusual collection," Kidd said. "When people create a porn collection, they almost always collect the pieces separately, because everybody's tastes are different. But here, every file was downloaded all at once. That's unusual.

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

They collected souls as they collected jewels.

The group, the herd, which is any collection of children.

W.P.A. Guides to the States, all forty-eight volumes of them. I have all of them, and some are very rare. If I remember correctly, North Dakota printed only eight hundred copies and South Dakota about five hundred. The complete set comprises the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it.

you will see this framework at work when ethnographers employ both quantitative (e.g., surveys) and qualitative data collection (LeCompte & Schensul, 1999) and when case study researchers use both quantitative and qualitative data (Luck, Jackson, & Usher, 2006; Yin, 2009).

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Swann made a hobby of collecting scraps of 'real life')

When you go to her house, look round you. You'll find it full of knick-knacks, every single one of which has been treasured by someone.' He blinked and, lowering his head, looked at Picot with wide serious eyes. 'Whenever I see them they look to me like petrified morsels hacked out of living pain,' he said gravely.

I love to collect modern art.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis

Milton Berle and Bob Hope each had a vault containing more than six million jokes on index cards sorted by topic. The