quotes about Collecting
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After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
-- A. S. W. Rosenbach -
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
-- Ada Louise HuxtableSource : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
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We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
-- Cofer Black -
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.
-- Eli Broad -
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.
-- Eric Ripert -
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Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
-- Frank Herbert -
I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.
-- Geoff JohnsSource : Source: collider.com
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I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
-- Harlan Howard -
Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
-- Henry Rollins -
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When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.
-- Joyce Meyer -
I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.
-- L. S. Lowry -
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
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My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”
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[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
-- Peggy Guggenheim -
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
-- Rila Fukushima -
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Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
-- Robert J. Shiller -
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
-- Scott Putesky -
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
-- Thelonious Monk -
Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.
-- Tim Vine -
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Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
-- Walter Annenberg -
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I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.
-- Keith Fullerton WhitmanSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.
-- Lizzy Plapinger -
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
-- Paul Mellon -
While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
-- Wooden Wand -
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Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
-- Rod Stryker -
I was really interested in collecting insects.
-- Satoshi TajiriSource : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.
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When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
-- Vincent StarrettSource : Vincent Starrett (1929). “Penny wise and book foolish”