Quotes About Collection

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

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

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

It had the rhythm and suspense of a juggler adding more objects to the spinning collection already airborne. Sometimes

All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

Even the best data-collection system is useless if there are no people available to manage it.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage. The way the music harked back to sounds from throughout the rock & roll timeline said much more about the inherent characteristics of rock music than it did about the breadth of the band's record collection

The Nag Hammadi scrolls are a collection of biblical texts, essentially Gnostic in character, which date, it would appear, from the late fourth or early fifth century—from about A.D. 400.

For certain people, you gotta remind them that you have a way better record collection than they do. And this tape I'm giving you now will show and prove it. (Not that it's a competition…but it always is.)

Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

It was becoming more and more clear that if the asteroids were the schools of minnows swimming among the pod of whales, then Pluto and the Kuiper belt objects were simply a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

The shelves of this store are stacked with stock. You will find a steamship, a sailing ship, and even a spaceship. There are several sorts of shoe and scores of signs and symbols. There is a sketch of a squinch, a selection of shells (not all from the sea), a siamang settled on a seat, a sponge to be studied, and sundry stuff suspended from strings. In all I included 1,234 Ss for you to see.

C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni rancori».