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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

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. — Mason Cooley

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

Dollars add up, collecting friends on Facebook... not so much. Do I know you? — Jevon Scott

As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances. — Michael Dirda

Life is about collecting good people around you. You can't have enough good people. — Robert Kraft

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

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. — Dave Barry

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 a
commitment 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

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. — Sarah Hall

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

This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing. — Amanda Palmer

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives. — Aaron Koblin

Princess, you have got to stop collecting these rebels." Ignoring — Marissa Meyer

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

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes

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

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice. — Crystal Renn

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. — Edward Gibbon

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia. — Trevor Dunn

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

I wanted to pretend for just a little longer that I was whole again. Happy. Then I'd figure out how to pick up the pieces and move on. — L.A. Fiore

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

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

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

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die. — Diplo

Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology. — Khem Veasna

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. — Lord Kelvin

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness. — Vincent Starrett

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks. — Wolfgang Puck

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power. — Nick Drake

I'd rather invest my time collecting memories and friends and love and all the things money can't buy. — Katie Kacvinsky

Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people. — Karen Clark

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

By collecting things in one spot, you can also compare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them. — Marie Kondo

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

What're you doing? Collecting the straight, super-macho Village People? — Kristen Ashley

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

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it. — Peggy Guggenheim

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk

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

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while — Bob Dylan

And who do you think you are, running around leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, tearing love apart, who do you think you are? — Christina Perri