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In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings — Daisaku Ikeda

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties. — Nanette Lepore

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. — Lilly Pulitzer

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' — Hillary Clinton

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. — Ray Metzker

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers. — Stacy London

Perfection is a polished collection of errors. — Mario Benedetti

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. — Chuck Palahniuk

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection [of information]. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters. — C. West Churchman

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections. — Leonard Lauder

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. — David Sedaris

Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few. — China Mieville

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners. — Marie Kondo

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings. — Azzedine Alaia

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. — Steve Ballmer

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. — Lydia Davis

The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women. — Phoebe Philo

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections. — Karl Lagerfeld

I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections. — Tiesto

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life. — Will Advise

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb

Is the murk which lives inside me,
actually a dead star? — Sameer Khan

A collection of books is the best of all universities. — Thomas Carlyle

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed. — Hedi Slimane

Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown. — Wayne Bivens-Tatum

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley

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

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. — Stephen D. Krashen

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work. — Stefano Gabbana

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories. — Susanna Moore

We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records. — Ted Cruz

How dispensable are most people in our lives, collections of matter filling empty space until they're recycled. — Teddy Wayne

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18 ... — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My sisters and I are very hands-on with our collections. I am really passionate about kids' clothes. — Kourtney Kardashian

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections. — Helen Van Wyk

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. — Chita Rivera

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day — Amy Winehouse

Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine! — George Carlin

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. — Peter Hammill

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis. — Bill Jay

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets. — Andy Stanley

History: a collection of epitaphs. — Elbert Hubbard

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature! — Karen Walker

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections, — Alexander McQueen

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. — Scotty Cameron

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player. — Mikhail Tal

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers. — Nicole Richie

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections. — Anna Wintour

I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. — El-P

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. — Karl Lagerfeld

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. — Domenico Dolce

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! — Sigmund Freud

I love collections of things, but always in moderation. — Sandy Gallin

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources — Henry Mintzberg

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it. — Rei Kawakubo

The key to my collections is sensuality. — Sonia Rykiel

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind. — Marcel Proust

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. — Emma Watson

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together. — Tim Cook

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. — Eva Herzigova

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases. — Christina Stead

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers. — Jane Green

collections and omnibuses (a book that contains — ReadList

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. — Dries Van Noten

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. — Jasper Fforde

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections. — Stephen Sprouse

Always my collections are made of different influences. — Jean Paul Gaultier

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another. — Alber Elbaz

The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. — Larry Page

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice. — Ashley Purdy

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything." — Rei Kawakubo

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music. — Oliver Sim

In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations. — Reem Acra

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. — John Rhys-Davies

Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel. — John Ortberg