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My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
— Gianni Versace
Tears slid; tears fell; tears, like diamonds, collecting powder in the ruts of her cherry blossom cheeks.
— Virginia Woolf
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
— John Connolly
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
— Ville Valo
My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
— Louise Imogen Guiney
I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.
— L. S. Lowry
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
— A. S. W. Rosenbach
I hold that book-collecting is the best of indoor sports, and I think I can provide proof; at any rate, I shall try.
— A. Edward Newton
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
— Margaret Thatcher
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
— Ray Mears
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
— Barton Gellman
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
— Calvin Coolidge
As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.
— Michael Dirda
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
— Lloyd Dorfman
My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
— Jimmy Cliff
I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.
— Woody Allen
That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
— Mercedes Lackey
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
— Rila Fukushima
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
— A.N.L. Munby
You can keep a piece of candy in its wrapper for up to twenty years. After that, it turns into a hideous black goo.
— Darlene Lacey
Maybe collecting bruises was the only way to learn how to fight.
— Patrick W. Carr
He was glad his feet were staying beneath him, but they were collecting a lot of the blood he needed for his brain.
— Claire McCague
Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.
— Shirley M. Tilghman
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
— Ursula Andress
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more acommitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. — Abbie Hoffman
Whatever is happening here, it definitely bypassed go and went straight to really fucking weird without collecting two hundred dollars.
— Sarah McCarry
Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.
— David F. Swensen
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers
We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.
— Joseph Shellim
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
— Tony Hillerman
I enjoy wine collecting and great food.
— Deep Roy
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
— Cress Williams
Get into the habit of collecting miniatures of your toiletries and keep these in your suitcase.
— Sophie Miller
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
— W. Edwards Deming
Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.
— Corneille Ewango
whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup.
— Ruthie Knox
For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.
— Christopher Scotton
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
— Thomas Paine
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
— Julie Andrews
I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.
— Jessica Reader
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
— Isabel Allende
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
— Clint Eastwood
My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
— Lauren Bush
He'd racketed around the world, collecting pirate's booty and investing it. Rather surprisingly, money made money.
— Eloisa James
Taking photos is a form of collecting.
— Martin Parr
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
— Bill Vaughan
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
— Anatole France
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
— Peter Dinklage
Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
— Khem Veasna
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
— Vincent Starrett
I'd rather invest my time collecting memories and friends and love and all the things money can't buy.
— Katie Kacvinsky
![Collecting Quotes By Stephen Jay Gould: Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/collecting-quotes-by-stephen-jay-gould-87651.jpg "Collecting Quotes By Stephen Jay Gould: Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung")
Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
— Ernest Rutherford
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
— Erik Johansson
I'll let you go. But remember that you belong to me. and I will collecting you. You are MINE! — Jasinda Wilder
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
— Frank Herbert
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
— Dale Carnegie
By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
— Jill McCorkle
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
— Annie Sprinkle
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
— Gautama Buddha
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
— Robert J. Shiller
![Collecting Quotes By Peggy Guggenheim: [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/collecting-quotes-by-peggy-guggenheim-383220.jpg "Collecting Quotes By Peggy Guggenheim: [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto")
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
— Peggy Guggenheim
In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them.
— Michael Sadleir
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
— Matsuo Basho
-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
— Barbara Hodgson
I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
— Edward G. Robinson
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
— Daisy Berkowitz
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
— Sigmund Freud
That's when I started the discipline of collecting quotes, stories, and illustrations for my speaking.
— John C. Maxwell
